NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Africa’s six female Anglican bishops concluded a historic meeting on Sunday (Jan. 14) by calling for authentic leadership, empowerment and mentoring for women on the continent.   The weeklong gathering was the first time the six had met as bishops and the first time that Africa has boasted six women in the role. They met at St. Julian’s Centre in Limuru, near Nairobi, where an inaugural Africa Anglican sisters’ journeying retreat was being held. The theme of their meeting was “African Anglican women bishops embarking on a journey of faith: Defying conventions and leading with grace.” “We are scattered — six of us — in the whole continent,” Bishop Rose Okeno of the Butere diocese, in western Kenya, told Religion News Service today (Jan. 19). “We have never had time to meet just to pray, to know each other and fellowship.” At the meeting were Okeno, Bishops Vicentia Kgabe and Dalcy Dlamini of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, Bishop Elizabeth Awut Ngor of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan, Bishop …