Archbishop of Cape Town

The Archbishop of Cape Town is the Primate / Metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

The current Archbishop is the Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba

Robert Gray (1809-1872) was the first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town.

List of Bishops and Archbishops

Bishops of Cape Town
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1847	1853	Robert Gray	Resigned his overlarge diocese.
1853	1873		Received fresh letters patent for a new, smaller diocese.
1874	1897	William West Jones	Became Archbishop of Cape Town.
Archbishops of Cape Town
1897	1908	William West Jones	Died in office.
1909	1930	William Carter	Previously Bishop of Zululand and then of Pretoria.
1931	1938	Francis Phelps	Translated from Grahamstown; died in office.
1938	1948	Russell Darbyshire	Translated from Glasgow and Galloway; died in office.
1948	1957	Geoffrey Clayton	Translated from Johannesburg; died in office.
1957	1963	Joost de Blank	Translated from Stepney.
1964	1974	Robert Selby Taylor	Previously Bishop of Northern Rhodesia, then of Pretoria, then of Grahamstown; later Bishop of Central Zambia.
1974	1981	Bill Burnett	Previously Bishop of Bloemfontein and then of Grahamstown.
1981	1986	Philip Russell	Previously Bishop of Port Elizabeth and then of Natal.
1986	1996	Desmond Tutu	Previously Bishop of Lesotho and then of Johannesburg; now Archbishop emeritus (of Cape Town).
1996	2007	Njongonkulu Ndungane	Translated from Kimberley and Kuruman.
2007	present	Thabo Makgoba	Translated from Grahamstown.

See also

• Anglican Diocese of Cape Town
• Anglican Church of Southern Africa