Zithulele Patrick Mvemve

Zithulele Patrick Mvemve (31 May 1941 – 6 July 2020) was a South African Roman Catholic bishop.

Mvemve was born in Evaton, South Africa, and educated at St Martin de Porres High School in Soweto.[1]

He studied for the priesthood at St. Peter's Seminary in Hammanskraal, Pretoria. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1969;[2] he served as titular bishop of Luperciani and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg from 1988 to 1994, and as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Klerksdorp, South Africa, from 1994 to 2013.[3]

Notes
  1. SC, Jael (16 July 2020). "Bishop Patrick Mvemve dies at 79 – Rest in Peace". The Southern Cross. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  2. "Bishop Zithulele Patrick Mvemve [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  3. Diocese of Klerksdorp


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