Global InformationPurity Nomthandazo Malinga information
The Reverend Purity Nomthandazo Malinga | |
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| Church | Methodist Church of Southern Africa |
| Installed | 2019 |
| Term ended | 2023 |
| Predecessor | The Rev Ziphozihle Siwa |
| Successor | The Rev Pumla Nzimande |
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| Consecration | 1999 |
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| Born | Purity Nomthandazo Malinga 1958 Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
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Purity Nomthandazo Malinga (born 1958) is a South African Methodist bishop and the 100th Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA).[1] Malinga was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1988, the fourth woman to be ordained in her denomination. In 1999, she became the first woman to be elected as a bishop in the MCSA, and served nine years as the bishop for the Natal Coastal region. She later became director of the MCSA's Education for Ministry and Mission Unit, which holds responsibility for overseeing theological education within the denomination. She is the first woman to become presiding bishop for the MCSA; she was elected to that position in 2019, succeeding Bishop Ziphorzihle Siwa.[2] The MCSA is the largest mainline Protestant denomination in Southern Africa and includes churches in Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa.[1]
- ^ a b Kumalo, Simangaliso (25 May 2020). "From Cabazi to Bruma: Purity Malinga's Rise to Presiding Bishop of the MCSA". Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae. 46 (1). doi:10.25159/2412-4265/6418. ISSN 2412-4265. S2CID 229263401.
- ^ Dion Forster. "Methodist Church Southern Africa enters new era as women take up top positions". The Conversation. Retrieved 7 January 2022.