I'm Archbishop Buti Tlhagale
Buti Tlhagale is a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate Congregation and has been a priest since 1977. He worked in a number of different parishes in Soweto before being ordained Archbishop of Bloemfontein in 1999. He is currently the Archbishop of Johannesburg- the first one since the Diocese of Johannesburg was elevated to an Archdiocese in 2007. He was appointed Bishop of Johannesburg in 2003. He is a former Secretary General of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
His Grace matriculated at Inchanga High School, near Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal
In 1967 he entered the novitiate of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Villa Maria, Quthing, Lesotho.
In 1968 he entered the Mater Jesu Scholasticate in Roma in Lesotho, where he obtained a BA Degree in 1967 at the University of Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland in 1972.
He studied Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome between 1972 and 1976.
He was ordained to the Priesthood by Archbishop Fanyana Butelezi in 1976 and worked in the Soweto community, serving at Our Lady of Fatima in Dube, 1979 – 1984, Our Lady of Mercy in Emdeni, 1984 – 1989, Christ the King in Orlando East, 1989 – 1999.
