# Filemon Mataka

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**Filemon Mataka**[1] was an [Anglican](/source/Anglican) [bishop](/source/Bishop)[2] in [Zambia](/source/Zambia)[3] in the second half of the 20th century:[4] he was the first [African](/source/Africa) bishop in the [Church of the Province of Central Africa](/source/Church_of_the_Province_of_Central_Africa).[5]

Mataka was born in 1909 at [Msoro](/source/Msoro). He was ordained deacon in 1941 and priest in 1943. After service as a priest in the [Diocese of Northern Rhodesia](/source/Bishop_of_Northern_Rhodesia) he was appointed the [Suffragan Bishop](/source/Suffragan_Bishop) of [Zambia](/source/Zambia)[6] in 1964 and the Archdeacon of Eastern Zambia in 1966. He was priest in charge of St Peter, [Lusaka](/source/Lusaka) from 1966 to 1969. In 1970 he was appointed Bishop of Zambia and in 1971 he was appointed the first [Bishop of Lusaka](/source/Diocese_of_Lusaka).[7]

## References

1. [Episcopal Archives, 1978](https://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=78198)

1. "Three Centuries of Mission: The United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1701-2000" O'Connor, D, p399: London; Continuum; 2000 ISBN 0-8264-4989-1

1. "A History of Global Anglicanism" Ward, K p161: Cambridge; CUP; 2006 ISBN 978-0-521-80395-3

1. ["Pembroke College, Oxford magazine"](https://web.archive.org/web/20250220033100/https://issuu.com/pembrokecollegeoxford/docs/l-1-2-2003-2). Archived from [the original](https://issuu.com/pembrokecollegeoxford/docs/l-1-2-2003-2) on 2025-02-20. Retrieved 2020-05-28.

1. [Daily Mail, Zambia](http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/tracing-cathedral-of-holy-cross-history/)

1. [The Beacon, Vol 20 No.1 January 1966](https://archive.org/details/beacon2024epis)

1. [Crockford's Clerical Directory](/source/Crockford's_Clerical_Directory) 1975-76 p648 London: Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN 0-19-200008-X

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