Official Anglican Church Wins Cases: Kunonga Claims Dismissed

From Zimbabwe

Supreme Court Decides Anglican Church Appeals:

Ruling For the Official Anglican Church and Against Kunonga Camp

On Monday 19th November the Supreme Court decided two appeals in favour of the Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa [“the Church”] – and against breakaway former Bishop of Harare Nolbert Kunonga and his adherents. The Church has at last, after a five-year legal battle, obtained a final court order confirming its legal right to possession and control of the Church’s property in Zimbabwe – and putting an end to the claims of Dr Kunonga and his adherents to Church property. [The background to the appeals was described in Court Watch 20/2012 of 24th October.]

The Meaning of the Decision

[Note: “the Church” refers to the Church of the Province of Central Africa – the long-standing “official” Anglican Church]

The effect of this decision is to grant the Church an order:

•    prohibiting Dr Kunonga from claiming to be the Church’s bishop of Harare

•    prohibiting Dr Kunonga and his “board of trustees” from:

•    claiming to be office bearers in the Church

•    accessing and operating the Church’s bank accounts

•    working or doing business from any of the Church’s cathedrals, churches, chapels and other immovable property

More here-

http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/news/zimbabwe/62408/official-anglican-church-wins-cases.html?utm_source=thezim&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=listarticle&utm_content=headinglink