Abel Gabuza

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Abel Gabuza (born March 23, 1955 in Johannesburg , South Africa , † January 17, 2021 in Durban ) was a South African clergyman and Roman Catholic coadjutor archbishop of Durban .

Life

Abel Gabuza, one of six siblings, grew up in the Alexandra Township during the apartheid period . He attended a Catholic school. After his father died, his mother sent him to boarding school. Immediately after graduation, he entered the St. Paul Minor and St. Peter Major Seminaries in Hammanskraal for a year , but interrupted his studies to work as a factory worker and then completed his theological training at St. John Vianney Seminary in Pretoria . On December 15, 1984, he received the sacrament of ordination for the Archdiocese of Pretoria. In 1988 he completed a master's degree in theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley (USA). He taught at three South African seminaries and was rector of the seminary in Cape Town from 1991 to 1994. In 1999 he became vicar general in Pretoria.

In the 2000s he was a leader in the African Catholic Priests' Solidarity Movement . Gabuza was two terms chairman of the Peace and Justice Commission of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference .

On December 23, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . to the Bishop of Kimberley . The Archbishop of Bloemfontein , Jabulani Adatus Nxumalo OMI , donated him episcopal ordination on March 19, 2011 ; Co- consecrators were the Bishop Emeritus of Kimberley, Erwin Hecht OMI, and the Archbishop of Johannesburg, Buti Joseph Tlhagale OMI.

Pope Francis appointed him Coadjutor Archbishop of Durban on December 9, 2018.

Abel Gabuza died after one week of intensive care at Busamed Hillcrest Hospital at the age of 65 after a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Zimasa Matiwane: SA's Catholic Church mourns loss of Archbishop Abel Gabuza to Covid-19th In: TimesLive . January 17, 2021, accessed January 17, 2021 .
  2. ^ A b Gunther Simmermacher: Archbishop Abel Gabuza 1955-2021. In: The Southern Cross. January 17, 2021, accessed January 17, 2021 .
  3. ^ Nomina del Coadiutore di Durban (South Africa). In: Daily Bulletin . December 9, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 (Italian).
predecessor Office successor
Erwin Hecht OMI Bishop of Kimberley
2010–2018 		vacant
personal data
SURNAME Gabuza, Abel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African clergyman and Roman Catholic coadjutor archbishop of Durban
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 2021
Place of death Durban , South Africa