Anthony Poggo
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{{short description|South Sudanese Anglican bishop}}
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| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Anthony Poggo
| title = Secretary General of the Anglican Communion
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| term = 2022 to present
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| predecessor = Josiah Idowu-Fearon
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| other_post = Bishop of Kajo-Keji
| ordination = 1995 (deacon)
1996 (priest)
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| birth_date = 1964
| birth_place = South Sudan
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| nationality = South Sudanese
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Anthony Poggo (born 1964) is a South Sudanese Anglican bishop. Since 2022, he has been the secretary general of the Anglican Consultative Council and head of the Anglican Communion Office.{{cite web
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| title = The Secretary General
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| publisher = Anglican Communion Web Site
| access-date = 20 March 2024
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Early life and education
During his childhood, Poggo's father, an Anglican priest, took his children to Uganda to flee the first Sudanese Civil War. They returned in 1973.{{cite web
| url = https://www.anglicannews.org/news/2022/06/former-child-refugee-named-as-next-secretary-general-of-the-anglican-communion.aspx
| title = Former child refugee named as next Secretary General of the Anglican Communion
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| publisher = Anglican Communion News Service
| access-date = 18 March 2024
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of Pentland
}} Poggo was educated at the University of Juba and Oxford Brookes University.{{cite web
| url = https://livingchurch.org/2022/06/14/former-refugee-to-serve-as-communions-secretary-general/
| title = The Living Church
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| date = 14 June 2022
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| publisher = The Living Church Foundation
| access-date = 20 March 2024
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Career
Poggo worked for the Scripture Union. He was ordained a deacon in 1995 and a priest in 1996. He then joined Across, a Christian mission agency working in Sudan, eventually becoming its executive director.{{cite web
| url = https://anglican.ink/2022/06/14/anthony-poggo-of-south-sudan-to-be-the-next-acc-general-secretary/
| title = Anthony Poggo of South Sudan to be the next ACC general secretary
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| date = 14 June 2022
| website = Anglican Ink
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| access-date = 20 March 2024
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}} In 2007 he was elected bishop of Kajo-Keji, a position he held until 2016 when he moved to Lambeth Palace to support Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby as his adviser on Anglican Communion affairs.{{cite web
| url = https://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/archbishop-canterbury-appoints-adviser-anglican-communion-affairs
| title = Archbishop of Canterbury appoints Adviser for Anglican Communion Affairs
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| date = 4 October 2016
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| publisher = Archbishop of Canterbury
| access-date = 20 March 2024
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}} In 2022, he succeeded Josiah Idowu-Fearon as secretary-general of the Anglican Communion.
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{{s-bef | before= Josiah Idowu-Fearon}}
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Category:21st-century Anglican bishops
Category:Alumni of Oxford Brookes University
Category:University of Juba alumni
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