 The church became part of the Province of East Africa in 1960, but Kenya and Tanzania were divided into separate provinces in 1970.The church was founded as the diocese of Eastern Equatorial Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania) in 1884, with James Hannington as the first bishop; however, Protestant missionary activity had been present in the area since 1844, when Johann Ludwig Krapf, a Lutheran missionary, landed in Mombasa.The first Africans were ordained to the priesthood in 1885.