Tito Zavala

The Most Revd
Tito Zavala
Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church of South America, Bishop of Chile
Church Anglican Church of South America
In office 2010-present
Predecessor Gregory Venables
Orders
Consecration 2000
Personal details
Born 16 October 1954

Héctor Tito Zavala Muñoz (born 16 October 1954) is a Chilean Anglican bishop. He is the first native Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Chile and the first Latin American Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America, renamed in 2014 as the Anglican Church of South America. He is married to Miriam and they have three adult children.

Early life and ecclesiastical career

He was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic family, who wasn't particularly religious. He still received the sacraments of Baptism and the First Communion, and attended a Roman Catholic school. He says that the first time that he heard the Gospel clearly preached and held a Bible on his hands was when he visited an Anglican church, aged 17 years old, at invitation of a friend. He converted to Anglicanism and studied at the Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, in Pittsburgh, United States. He became bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Chile, comprising the entire country of Chile, in 2000.[1] He was elected unanimously to be the first Latin American and Chilean Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church in the Southern Cone of America, at the Synod held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at 2–5 November 2010, at their 10th Provincial Meeting. He served for a three years term, being reelected in 2013.[2]

He has been a keen supporter of the Anglican realignment, as a member of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans and the Global South Primates Council. He attended the GAFCON II meeting, in Nairobi, Kenya, at 21–26 October 2013.

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Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Gregory Venables
Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America
2010present
Incumbent


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