The Episcopal Church in South Sudan's Central Equatoria state said it is going to appoint its own Archbishop to represent the region.

Currently The Episcopal Church of Sudan and South Sudan has an overall Archbishop, Daniel Deng Bul, whose seat is in Juba, Central Equatoria.

However, the Bishop of Yei Diocese Hillary Adeba said that the church held a synod which decided to group different diocese into clusters with their own administrations.

Adeba said in the new cluster system, Daniel Deng Bul would not be called an Archbishop but rather a primate and metropolitan who oversees the province.

He added that there is no special time for appointing an Archbishop for Central Equatoria but it the process would not exceed three years.

"The aim is to start the process of the inauguration of the internal province because it is within the bigger system of the Episcopal Church. So the process starts and it is a planning process, we need to plan, how and when to inaugurate this province," said Adeba.

He added that renovating premises for the establishment of the new cluster would cost two million South Sudanese Pounds.