Vicentia Kgabe

The Revd Vincentia Kgabe Ph.D
Rector of the College of the Transfiguration
Province	Anglican Church of Southern Africa
Predecessor	Barney Pityana
Orders
Ordination	2003

Right. Rev Dr Vicentia Refiloe Kgabe is an Anglican Bishop of Diocese of Lesotho in the Anglican Church of South Africa and academic teaching Practical Theology.

Early life and education

Born in Soweto, Kgabe attended schools in Soweto, she started her theological training at the College of the Transfiguration. She undertook further theological studies at the University of Pretoria where she obtained a PhD in Practical Theology in 2011. She has also attended Pretoria University's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) leadership programme.

Clerical career

Kgabe was made deacon in 2002 and was ordained as a priest in 2003.[1] She served as rector of the Parish of Weltevreden St Michael and All Angels, a position she has held since 2013. She has, however, served in parishes around the Diocese of Johannesburg since her ordination. She was an archdeacon in the Diocese of Johannesburg, where she has had responsibility for the promotion and discernment of vocations to the ordained ministry of the church.[1]

In 2014 she was appointed rector of the College of the Transfiguration.[2]

In 2021 she was elected as bishop of Lesotho.[3] She was consecrated in December 2021.[4]

Other work

Member of the board for Hope Africa[5] and of the council of the College of the Transfiguration.[1]

Publications

• Abuse of Alcohol by Clergy: Challenge to Pastoral Care. LAP Lambert Academic Publishers. 2011. ISBN 978-3-8465-2958-4.
• Abuse of alcohol by Anglican clergy : challenge to pastoral care (Ph.D. thesis). Pretoria: University of Pretoria. 8 September 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2014.

• Traumatic experience of church going girls who fall pregnant out of wedlock : challenge to pastoral care (M.Th. thesis). Pretoria: University of Pretoria. 5 September 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2014.

Notes and references

1. Cott 2014.
2. Zulu 2014.
3. "Bishop Vicentia Kgabe: "It might sound cliche, but I had to learn to love God's people"". World Council of Churches. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
4. Melbourne Anglican website, article by Jenan Taylor dated May 17, 2023
5. Hope Africa 2012.

• Zulu, Bellah (12 August 2014). "SA Anglicans appoint first woman to lead theological college". Anglican News. Retrieved 13 September 2014.

• "HOPE Africa Board". Hope Africa. 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2014.

• "Statement" (PDF) (Press release). Grahamstown: College of the Transfiguration. 1 July 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014.

See also

• Diocese of Lesotho
• Religion in Lesotho