Siegfried John Ngubane (born 1961) is a South African Anglican bishop. He is the first indigenous African presiding bishop of the

Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa The Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa (REACH-SA), known until 2013 as the Church of England in South Africa (CESA), is a Christian denomination in South Africa. It was constituted in 1938 as a federation of churches. It appo ...

(REACH-SA).

Biography

Ngubane graduated from the REACH-SA seminary, George Whitefield College (GWC), in 1998. He also holds master's degrees in industrial psychology from the

Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch University (SU) (, ) is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Stellenbosch is the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant university in Sub-Sahara ...

and in

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from

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and a Ph.D. in missiology from the

University of the Free State The University of the Free State (; Sotho language, Sesotho: ''Yunivesithi ya Freistata'') is a multi-campus public university in Bloemfontein, the capital of the Free State (province), Free State and the judicial capital of South Africa. It wa ...

. Ngubane was rector of Christ Church

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near

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. He was also appointed the first indigenous African lecturer at GWC in 2004 as part of an initiative in the REACH-SA (then known as the Church of England in South Africa) to address the needs of multiracial and Black churches and mentor the growing number of indigenous African postulants entering the seminary. In 2010, he became the South African director of SIM, a cross-cultural missions agency. In September 2023, the REACH-SA synod elected Ngubane as presiding bishop, succeeding Glenn Lyons. Ngubane was consecrated to the episcopate and installed as presiding bishop at Christ Church

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on 10 February 2024. In this capacity he is a member of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (Gafcon) primates' council. In addition to REACH-SA bishops, several bishops from other Gafcon jurisdictions participated in Ngubane's consecration, including Stephen Kaziimba of the

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, who preached at the service; Julian Dobbs of the

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;

Lukas Katenda Lukas Kaluwapa Katenda (born 1978) is a Namibian Anglican bishop. Consecrated in 2019, he is the second bishop of the Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of Namibia (REACH Namibia). He served as a general secretary at the Southern Anglican Diocese ...

from REACH-Namibia, Malcolm Richards from the

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; and Andy Lines from the

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. Three bishops were also present representing the

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and its primate,

Thabo Makgoba Thabo Cecil Makgoba KStJ (born 15 December 1960) is the South African Anglican archbishop of Cape Town. He had served before as bishop of Grahamstown. Biography Makgoba graduated from Orlando High, Soweto, and completed his BSc degree at ...

Personal life

Ngubane is Zulu. He is married to Maureen, and they have three adult children.

References

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