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South African Anglican bishop

The Right Reverend
Margaret Brenda Vertue
Bishop of False Bay
Bishop Margaret
ChurchAnglican Church of Southern Africa
ProvinceWestern Cape
DioceseDiocese of False Bay
Elected3 October 2012
In office3 October 2012 – 31 August 2023
PredecessorMerwyn Castle
SuccessorStafford Moses
Orders
OrdinationSeptember 1992
Consecration19 January 2013
by Thabo Makgoba
Personal details
Born (1953-04-06) 6 April 1953 (age 71)
Kimberley, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
DenominationAnglicanism

Margaret Brenda Vertue (born 6 April 1953) is a retired South African Anglican bishop. She was the second woman to be elected as a bishop of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and of the whole African continent, as the diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of False Bay.

Vertue was educated at the Convent of the Holy Family in Kimberley and studied at St Paul's Theological College, Grahamstown (now the College of the Transfiguration), at Stellenbosch University and at St Beuno's, North Wales. She was ordained as one of the first woman priests by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in September 1992. She was preceded by Merwyn Castle.

She was elected Bishop of the Diocese of False Bay on 3 October 2012 by the Diocesan Elective Assembly and consecrated as Bishop on 19 January 2013 by the Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town.

Bishop Margaret's tenure as bishop of False Bay ended on 31 August 2023 as she entered retirement.

References

  1. ^ Anon 2012.
  2. Anon 2023.
  3. Kannemeyer 2012.
  4. Hartle 2013.

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Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded byMerwyn Castle Bishop of False Bay
2012 - 		Incumbent
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