Siegfried Mandla Jwara, CMM (born 1 February 1957) is a South African prelate of the Catholic Church who has been appointed archbishop of

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. He has been a bishop since 2016, serving as the Apostolic Vicar of

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Biography

Siegfried Jwara was born on 1 February 1957 in Saint Nivard, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was named Siegfried after the priest who baptized him. After attending the Kwa-Hluzingqondo School in uMkhomazi and completing his high school studies, he entered the

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on 1 February 1981. He took his first religious vows on 24 September 1984 and his final vows in 1986. He completed his studies in philosophy and theology at Saint Joseph's Theological Institute in Cedara from 1982 to 1986. He was ordained a deacon on 31 May 1986 by Bishop Mansuet Biyase of

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and a priest on 14 February 1987 by Bishop Paul Themba Mngoma of

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. He was parish vicar at the Clairvaux Mission in Mpendle in the

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from 1987 to 1992. He obtained a diploma in Human Development, Leadership, Formation & Community Building at the Institute of Saint Anselm in London during the year 1992-1993. He was master of novices at Mariannhill Monastery, briefly rector at Merrivale, and then provincial counsellor of his order from 1993 to 1998. In 1998 he earned a master's degree in theology from the

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in Pietermaritzburg. He has also served as superior of the Mariannhill Province from 1998 to 2002 and general counsellor at the order's headquarters in Rome from 2002 to 2004. Next he was a parish priest in Port Saint Johns and in the Saint Patrick Mission of the diocese of Umtata, and then again counsellor from 2005 to 2006 and provincial superior of the order from 2006 to 2009. He returned to the diocese of Umtata as parish priest of Saint Patrick, diocesan consultor and dean of the eastern deanery from 2009 to 2014. He was regional superior of that diocese and again parish priest of the Saint Patrick Mission from 2014 to 2016. On 30 April 2016,

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appointed apostolic vicar of Ingwavuma and named him titular bishop of

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. He received his episcopal consecration the following 25 June from Bishop José Luís Ponce de León of

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, his predecessor in Ingwavuma. He was elected by the

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as one of its two representatives at the 2018 synod of bishops on youth and discernment. In February 2020, Jwara joined 15 Catholic bishops in the Global Campaign for Peace and Justice in Cameroon, asking President

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to accept the Swiss government's offer of arbitration to end the sectarian violence there. On 9 June 2021, Pope Francis named him to succeed Cardinal

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as Archbishop of Durban.

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