Justus Marcus

Justus Mauritius Marcus was Regional Bishop of Saldanha Bay in the Diocese of Cape Town, 2002 to 2003, having served as Dean of Kimberley and Rector of St Cyprian's Cathedral from 1992 to 2002. He died from cancer, aged 48, on 1 December 2003. Marcus was predeceased by his first wife, Milly (who died in Kimberley in 2000). His second wife and widow is Sarah Rowland Jones, a fellow priest who then fulfilled a research ministry in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa at the behest of two successive Archbishops of Cape Town before returning to Wales in late 2013.

Marcus was born in 1955 and grew up in Riversdale in the Western Cape, South Africa. Marcus Graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BA degree and gained his A.F.T.S. from St Peter’s Theological (Federal) Seminary. He was ordained as a deacon in 1978 and as a priest in 1979 at St Mark’s Cathedral, George.

Following his ordination, Fr Marcus served in the Diocese of George for five years. He was Curate and then Rector at Heidelberg.

He subsequently was appointed as a tutor, lecturing in theology at St Paul’s Theological College, Grahamstown. He furthered his studies at the University of London in 1986, where he lived with his family for three years.

The Marcus family returned to South Africa in 1990 when Fr Marcus served as a canon of St Mary's Cathedral, Johannesburg with an appointment as Rector of the Parish Church of St Luke in Bosmont in the Archdeaconry of Sophiatown.

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