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Who was the first archbishop of the Church of the Province of Kenya?

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Festo Olang’ was elected the first archbishop of the Church of the Province of Kenya in 1970. His election coincided with the division of the former Province of East Africa into separate Anglican provinces for Kenya and Tanzania, establishing Kenya as an autonomous province within the Anglican Communion. (In 1998 the Church of the Province of Kenya officially adopted the name Anglican Church of Kenya.)