{"id":75,"date":"2012-08-06T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T14:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elctecd.org\/cms\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2018-12-07T18:38:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:38:04","slug":"welcome-to-our-diocese","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elctecd.org\/ecden\/who-we-are\/welcome-to-our-diocese\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to our Diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania<\/span> \u2013 <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Eastern and Coastal Diocese<\/span> (ELCT- <span style=\"color: #008000;\">ECD)<\/span>, is a Faith \u2013 Based Organization (FBO) headquartered in Dar es Salaam. It is one of the twenty-five (25) Dioceses of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania comprising of 93 parishes from the Eastern and Coastal cluster. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">ECD<\/span> supports livelihood through evangelism and Gender &amp; Social Services interventions.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">The scope of the work geographical covers<\/span> the region of <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Dar es Salaam, Coastal Region<\/span> as well as the islands of <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Zanzibar, Pemba<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Mafia<\/span>. The geographical location of the city of Dar es Salaam which is the Diocesan Headquarters is a metro pole, big attraction to people from different parts of the world. The city is the economical centre of the country and harbours big potentials for the Diocese and the country at large.<br \/>\nCurrently, the <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Eastern and Coastal Diocese<\/span> is structured in 6 districts, each headed by a District Pastor as follows: &#8211;<br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Central<\/span> District,<br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Western<\/span> district,<br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Northern<\/span> District,<br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"color: #008000;\">South Western<\/span> District,<br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Southern District<\/span> and<br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Zanzibar<\/span> District.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania \u2013 Eastern and Coastal Diocese (ELCT- ECD), is a Faith \u2013 Based Organization (FBO) headquartered in Dar es Salaam. It is one of the twenty-five (25) Dioceses of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania comprising of 93 parishes from the Eastern and Coastal cluster. ECD supports livelihood through evangelism &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elctecd.org\/ecden\/who-we-are\/welcome-to-our-diocese\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to our Diocese&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1320,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elctecd.org\/ecden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elctecd.org\/ecden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elctecd.org\/ecden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elctecd.org\/ecden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elctecd.org\/ecden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.elctecd.org\/ecden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/www.elctecd.org\/ecden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/1678"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elctecd.org\/ecden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elctecd.org\/ecden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elctecd.org\/ecden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}