Thabo Makgoba
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The Most Reverend Dr. Thabo Makgoba |
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| Archbishop of Cape Town, Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa | |
Makgoba at the 2012 World Economic Forum on Africa
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| Church | Anglican |
| See | Cape Town |
| In office | 2007 – present |
| Predecessor | Njongonkulu Ndungane |
| Successor | incumbent |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1990 |
| Consecration | 2002 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 December 1960 Johannesburg |
| Previous post | Bishop of Grahamstown |
Thabo Cecil Makgoba (born 15 December 1960) is the South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town. He had served in the past as Bishop of Grahamstown. In 2008 he was awarded the Cross of St Augustine, the second highest international award for outstanding service to the Anglican Communion, by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
He graduated from Orlando High, Soweto, and took a BSc at Wits before going to St Paul's College, Grahamstown to study for the Anglican ministry. He married the daughter of Cecil Manona, Lungelwa Manona. Since then he 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, 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, the youngest person ever to be elected to this position. He is a Procter Fellow (2008) from the Episcopal Divinity School in the United States.
He holds three honorary doctorates in divinity, from the General Theological Seminary (2009) and Huron University College ( 2013). Sewanee (University of the South) (2015) and Holds an Honorary doctorate in Literature from Witwatersrand Unviversity (WITS) 2016 as well as the Chancellor's medal from University of Pretoria (2015). He is currently the Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape (2012).
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