Margaret Vertue Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Right Reverend
Margaret Brenda Vertue
Bishop of False Bay
Church:Anglican Church of Southern Africa
Province:Western Cape
Diocese:Diocese of False Bay
Elected:3 October 2012
Term:3 October 2012 - 31 August 2023
Predecessor:Merwyn Castle
Successor:Stafford Moses
Ordination:September 1992
Consecration:19 January 2013
Consecrated By:Thabo Makgoba
Birth Date:6 April 1953
Birth Place:Kimberley, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
Religion:Anglicanism

Margaret Brenda Vertue (born 6 April 1953) is a retired South African Anglican bishop. She was the second woman to be elected as a bishop of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa 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 Kimberley and studied at St Paul's Theological College, Grahamstown (now the College of the Transfiguration), at Stellenbosch University and at St Beuno's, North Wales. She was ordained as one of the first woman priests by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in September 1992. She was preceded by Merwyn Castle.

She was elected Bishop of the Diocese of False Bay on 3 October 2012 by the Diocesan Elective Assembly and consecrated as Bishop on 19 January 2013 by the Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town.

Bishop Margaret's tenure as bishop of False Bay ended on 31 August 2023 as she entered retirement.

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