Pope Benedict has named the new Archbishop of Pretoria in South Africa. Bishop Paul Mandla Khumalo, who succeeds Archbishop George Daniel, will also serve as the new Military Ordinary to the South African National Defence Force.
The details of the installation of the new archbishop, who has been the Bishop of Witbank since January 2002, have not yet been finalised.
Archbishop Daniel has been Archbishop of Pretoria since 1975 and the Pope accepted his resignation on reaching the age of 75.
Archbishop-elect Khumalo was born at St Wendelin in the diocese of Mariannhill on February 5 1947. He was ordained priest on April 28 1973.
He worked in the parish of Umzinto before further studies in Canada and has served as vocations director for the Mariannhill missionaries, Master of the Novitiate and a parish priest in Mariannhill.
In 1993 he was appointed the provincial superior of the Mariannhill Missionaries in South Africa.
In 1996, he was appointed vicar general of his congregation and sent to Rome.
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