Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi (14 September 1927 – 25 January 2019) was the

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, from 1981 until 2009. Setlalekgosi became an ordained priest in 1963. He succeeded Urban Charles Joseph Murphy to become the second Roman Catholic bishop in Botswana's history.Diocese of Gaborone, Botswana
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