Patrick Matolengwe

Monwabisi Patrick Matolengwe (12 May 1937 – 31 May 2019) was a South African Anglican bishop.

Biography Matolengwe was born in Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape. He qualified as a teacher at the Teachers’ College at Lovedale, he taught for a few years, after which he worked as a court interpreter in Laaiplek in the Western Cape. While at Laaiplek he became involved in Christian youth education and decided to change his career and trained for the Anglican ministry.

After graduation in 1966, he worked at Nyanga, Cape Town and in the surrounding rural areas. In recognition of his ministry he was made a canon of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, he was subsequently elected to be a suffragan bishop of the diocese of Cape Town.

The political and social pressures of life in the Apartheid-era South Africa in the 1970s and 80s took their toll on his health. In 1988, he was invited by the bishop of Milwaukee to move to the United States. He was appointed dean of All Saints Cathedral, Milwaukee