South East Asia: New Archbishop
The Installation of the Rt Revd Dr John Chew Hiang Chea as the 3rd Archbishop of the Province of the Anglican Church in South East Asia
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Bishop John Chew will succeed Archbishop Datuk Yong Ping Chung as the third Archbishop of the Province of South East Asia. He will be installed in St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore, on Sunday 5th February 2006 at the 5.00 pm Service. In April 2000 he was consecrated and installed as the 8th Bishop of Singapore by Archbishop Yong, being the first Chinese educated Bishop of Singapore. The term of office of the Primate of South East Asia is 4 years. As the Primate of South East Asia, the Archbishop-elect, like his predecessors, will provide leadership for the Anglican work and mission in the Dioceses of Kuching and Brunei, Sabah, Singapore and West Malaysia. The Province has ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Malaysia and Singapore as well as in Brunei, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Nepal. Altogether these have a population of 450 million consisting of many races, languages, cultures, religions and customs.

Over 30 Anglican Primates (Archbishops) and Bishops from countries of ASEAN and Asia, Africa, Melanesia, England, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will be arriving for the Installation Service and other related events. It is by far one of the largest gatherings of global senior Anglican clerics for a Primatial Installation in this part of the world. Altogether they represent over 50 million Anglican members in the world. The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Rt Revd Dr Rowan Williams, will be represented by the Rt Revd Jonathan Gledhill (Bishop of Lichfield). Also present will be another senior Anglican cleric, the Most Revd Dr Peter Akinola, the Primate of All Nigeria and Chairman of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa as well as the Global South Movement in the Communion. Archbishop-Elect John Chew is the General Secretary of the Global South Movement, a grouping of non-Western Provinces within the Anglican Communion. The rest