THE ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF SOUTHERN NYANZA ECCLESIASTICAL LEADERSHIP

We discuss the defining characteristics of the Anglican Diocese of Southern Nyanza Ecclesiastical leadership, drawing on Christian scriptures and tradition. We reflect on some of the difficulties perennially confrontingthose who exercise such leadership and examine more closely one of the fundamental challenges posed by some dominant cultural currents when tied to globalization processes. We concentrate on the theological ontology and spiritual foundations of leadership rather than on analyze concrete modes of its exercise in the variety of situations in which it may be found, whether historical or contemporary. While such models have improved various leadership skills including administrative efficiency, the cost has too often been the loss of the very substance of specificallyecclesiastical leadership.