Margaret Brenda Vertue (born 6 April 1953) is a South African

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. She is the second woman to be elected as a bishop of the

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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

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and studied at St Paul's Theological College, Grahamstown (now the College of the Transfiguration), at

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and at St Beuno's,

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. She was ordained as one of the first woman priests by Archbishop

Desmond Tutu Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 193126 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop ...

in September 1992. She was preceded by

Merwyn Castle Merwyn Edwin Castle (2 November 1942 - 2 August 2021) was an Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of False Bay The Diocese of False Bay is a diocese in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa The Anglican Church of Southern Africa, known until 2006 ...

. She was elected Bishop of the Diocese of

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on 3 October 2012 by the Diocesan Elective Assembly and consecrated as Bishop on 19 January 2013 by the Most Reverend

Thabo Makgoba Thabo Cecil Makgoba KStJ (born 15 December 1960 in Alexandra, Johannesburg) is the South African Anglican archbishop of Cape Town. He had served before as bishop of Grahamstown. Biography Makgoba graduated from Orlando High, Soweto, and ...

, Archbishop of Cape Town.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vertue, Margaret Brenda 1951 births Living people Women Anglican bishops Anglican bishops of False Bay 21st-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops People from Kimberley, Northern Cape College of the Transfiguration alumni