Margaret Vertue

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.^[1]

The Right Reverend Margaret Brenda Vertue
Bishop of False Bay
Bishop Margaret
Church	Anglican Church of Southern Africa
Province	Western Cape
Diocese	Diocese of False Bay
Elected	3 October 2012
In office	3 October 2012 – 31 August 2023
Predecessor	Merwyn Castle
Successor	Stafford Moses
Orders
Ordination	September 1992
Consecration	19 January 2013 by Thabo Makgoba
Personal details
Born	(1953-04-06) 6 April 1953 (age 71) Kimberley, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
Denomination	Anglicanism

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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.^[2] She was preceded by Merwyn Castle.^[1]

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.^[1][3][4]

Bishop Margaret's tenure as bishop of False Bay ended on 31 August 2023 as she entered retirement.