The Rt. Rev. Thabo Cecil Makgoba, Bishop of Grahamstown, was elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan and Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa on Sept. 25.
Bishop Makgoba, 47, will succeed the Most Rev. Njongonkulu Ndungane as archbishop, and will assume office on Jan 1. Viewed as a conservative on issues of human sexuality, he is expected to try to move the South African church closer to the other African Anglican provinces. The spiritual reconstruction of the church and of South African society will guide his tenure as archbishop, he told the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
This is very important news from Africa. It will mean basically a united front on Africa’s part against TEC apostacy.
Not the kind of result 815 has envisioned as it hopes for a new, more pliable generation of Global South leaders.
Does anyone know why the Living Church has chosen to characterize the next Archbishop as a “conservative”?
The interesting thing here is that they have elected someone who is not yet 50 and who has been Bishop of Grahamstown only since February. Whatever his stance on the issues, this is clearly a passage from one generation of leadership to the next.
This is a spot-on appointment, and just might throw a load of sand in the clockwork of TEC’s efforts at subversion in Africa.
The Living Church may know something I don’t, but I think this characterization is inaccurate.
My guess (and only an assumption) is that we are seeing a shift between those whose careers were dominated by the anti-apartheid movement which was marxist and are now seeing the rise of Bishops whose main concern has been the devastation brought on by aids.
Jim, #6, what is the basis for your statement?