Mount Coke is a town in
Buffalo City in the
Eastern Cape province of
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring count ...
.
Station of the
Methodist Missionary Society
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's br ...
18 km east of
King William’s Town
Qonce, formerly known as King William's Town, is a city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa along the banks of the Buffalo River. The city is about northwest of the Indian Ocean port of East London. Qonce, with a population of around ...
. It was established in 1825 by the Reverend S Kay and named after
Thomas Coke, who was the first Methodist Bishop and regarded as the Father of Methodist Missions.
References
Populated places in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
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