Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean the Ordinary of the Anglican Church in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean since the diocese's erection in 1973. The current bishop is James Wong, since 2009; he has also been the Archbishop of the Indian Ocean since 2017. The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean is a member of the Global South and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, and has been involved in the Anglican realignment. Archbishop James Wong attended GAFCON III, in Jerusalem, on 17-22 June 2018. Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean is a
Indian Ocean Polynesians reached most of the far flung islands and atolls and populated them, almost all the islands, archipelagos and atolls of the Indian Ocean were uninhabited until colonial times. Although there were numerous ancient civilizations in the coastal states of Asia and parts of Africa, the Maldives were the only island group in the Central Indian Ocean region where an ancient civilization flourished. Maldivian ships used the Indian Monsoon Current to travel to the nearby coasts. From 1405 to 1433 admiral Zheng He said to have led large fleets of the Ming Dynasty on several treasure voyages through the Indian