Margaret Vertue
{{short description|South African Anglican bishop}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}{{Use South African English|date=September 2013}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Bishop
| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Margaret Brenda Vertue
| title = Bishop of False Bay
| image = Bishop Margaret Vertue - logo.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Bishop Margaret
| church = Anglican Church of Southern Africa
| archdiocese =
| province = Western Cape
| diocese = Diocese of False Bay
| see =
| elected = 3 October 2012
| term = 3 October 2012 – 31 August 2023
| predecessor = Merwyn Castle
| successor = Stafford Moses
| ordination = September 1992
| ordinated_by =
| consecration = 19 January 2013
| consecrated_by = Thabo Makgoba
| rank =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|04|06|df=y}}
| birth_place = Kimberley, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
| death_date =
| death_place =
| religion = Anglicanism
| previous_post =
}}
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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.{{sfn|Anon|2012}}
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.{{sfn|Anon|2023}} She was preceded by Merwyn Castle.{{sfn|Anon|2012}}
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.{{sfn|Anon|2012}}{{sfn|Kannemeyer|2012}}{{sfn|Hartle|2013}}
Bishop Margaret's tenure as bishop of False Bay ended on 31 August 2023 as she entered retirement.
References
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Bibliography
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- {{Cite web
| title = Second female Anglican bishop elected by Southern Africa
| author = Anon
| work = Anglican Journal
| date = 9 October 2012
| access-date = 2014-10-07
| url = http://www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/second-female-anglican-bishop-elected-by-southern-africa-11219
}}
- {{Cite press release
|title = Canon Margaret Vertue elected as the next Bishop of the Diocese of False Bay
|first = AJ
|last = Kannemeyer
|publisher = Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA)
|date = 10 April 2012
|access-date = 2014-10-07
|url = http://www.anglicanchurchsa.org/view.asp?ItemID=482&tname=tblComponent1&oname=News&pg=front
|location = Cape Town
|url-status=dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141011051813/http://www.anglicanchurchsa.org/view.asp?ItemID=482&tname=tblComponent1&oname=News&pg=front
|archive-date = 11 October 2014
}}
- {{Cite web
| title = SA chooses female bishop
| first= Ray
|last=Hartle
| work = IOL News
| date = 20 January 2013
| access-date = 2014-10-07
| url = http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/sa-chooses-female-bishop-1.1455030#.VDOP5lc0_vZ
}}
- {{Cite web
| title = Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Ordination of women priests feast of St Michael and all Angels – 29 September 2022
| author = Anon
| work = False Bay Diocese
| date = 6 March 2023
| access-date = 2023-03-21
| url = https://falsebaydiocese.org.za/2023/03/06/celebration-of-the-30th-anniversary-of-the-ordination-of-women-priests-feast-of-st-michael-and-all-angels-29-september-2022/
}}
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External links
- [http://www.anglicanchurchsa.org ACSA Website]
- [http://www.falsebaydiocese.org.za/ Diocesan website]
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Category:Women Anglican bishops
Category:Anglican bishops of False Bay
Category:21st-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops