Right. Rev Dr Vicentia Refiloe Kgabe is an

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Bishop of Diocese of Lesotho in the Anglican Church of South Africa and academic teaching Practical Theology.

Early life and education

Born in

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, Kgabe attended schools in Soweto, she started her theological training at the

College of the Transfiguration The College of the Transfiguration in Makhanda, Eastern Cape, is the only provincial residential college of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, offering a contextual approach to theology studies. The college opened in 1993, following the amal ...

. She undertook further theological studies at the

University of Pretoria The University of Pretoria ( af, Universiteit van Pretoria, nso, Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public university, public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. The university was ...

where she obtained a PhD in Practical Theology in 2011. She has also attended Pretoria University's

Gordon Institute of Business Science Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS Business School) is a business school in South Africa and an affiliate of the University of Pretoria. It is located in the heart of Illovo, Johannesburg, close to the Sandton financial and commercial b ...

(GIBS) leadership programme.

Clerical career

Kgabe was made deacon in 2002 and was ordained as a priest in 2003. She served as

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of the Parish of Weltevreden St Michael and All Angels, a position she has held since 2013. She has, however, served in parishes around the Diocese of Johannesburg since her ordination. She was an archdeacon in the Diocese of Johannesburg, where she has had responsibility for the promotion and discernment of vocations to the ordained ministry of the church. In 2014 she was appointed

of the

. In 2021 she was elected as

bishop of Lesotho The Diocese of Lesotho is a diocese in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. It comprises the entire nation of Lesotho. It is divided in three archdeaconries, Central Lesotho, Northern Lesotho and Southern Lesotho. The former bishop is Adam Taas ...

Other work

Member of the board for Hope Africa and of the council of the College of the Transfiguration.

Publications

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Notes and references

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