The rise of Bishop Sipuka

Leo XIV’s first appointment to a South African diocese is a notable one.

Pope Leo XIV made his first episcopal appointment in South Africa Friday — and it was a notable one.

Bishop Sithembele Sipuka, the archbishop-elect of Cape Town, South Africa. Credit: Screenshot from the SACBC Official YouTube channel.

The pope named Bishop Sithembele Sipuka as the Archbishop of Cape Town Jan. 9, succeeding Cardinal Stephen Brislin, who w…