Thabo Makgoba

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name = Thabo Makgoba


religion=Anglican
See = Cape Town
Title = Archbishop of Cape Town, Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa
Period = 2007 – present
consecration = 2003
Predecessor = Njongonkulu Ndungane
Successor = incumbent
post = Bishop | ordination = 1974
bishops = Bishop of Grahamstown
date of birth = 1960
place of birth = Makgoba Kloof, Limpopo, South Africa|Anglican Portal

The Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba is the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town. He had served in the past as Bishop of Grahamstown.

Life

He matriculated at Orlando High, Soweto, and took a BSc at Wits before going to St Paul's College in Grahamstown to study for the Anglican ministry. He married the daughter of a Rhodes University lecturer Lungi Manona. Since then Bishop Thabo has obtained a Masters in Educational Psychology, at Wits, where he also lectured part-time from 1993 to 1996. He was made Bishop of Queenstown (Suffragan Bishop of Grahamstown) on 25 May 2002, and became Bishop of Grahamstown in 2004. Until he moved to the Diocese of Grahamstown as Bishop Suffragan, Thabo Makgoba's ministry had been spent in the Diocese of Johannesburg, first as a curate at the Cathedral, and then as Wits chaplain. After that he was put in charge of St Alban's Church and later of Christ the King, Sophiatown. He became Archdeacon of Sophiatown in 1999. He became Archbishop of Cape Town on 31 December 2007.

Sources

* [http://scifac.ru.ac.za/cathedral/spire/dec03/thabo.htm Thabo Makgoba]