# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sithembele-anton-sipuka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:29:36.675Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sithembele-anton-sipuka"
name: "Sithembele Anton Sipuka"
slug: "sithembele-anton-sipuka"
description: "Sithembele Sipuka is a South African Catholic prelate, the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town. Before that, from 8 February 2008 until 9 January 2026, he was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Umtata, South Africa. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him bishop in 2008. He was consecrated and installed at Umtata, Diocese of Umtata, on 3 May 2008 by Oswald Georg Hirmer, Bishop Emeritus of Umtata. On 9 January 2026, Pope Leo XIV transferred him to Cape Town and appointed him Metropolitan Archbishop there. His installation at Cape Town was held on 14 March 2026 at GrandWest."
tagline: "South African Roman Catholic archbishop"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Coat_of_arms_of_Sithembele_Anton_Sipuka_%28archbishop%29.svg/330px-Coat_of_arms_of_Sithembele_Anton_Sipuka_%28archbishop%29.svg.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1960-04-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.875666666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  230
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sithembele_Anton_Sipuka"
    title: "Sithembele Anton Sipuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sithembele_Sipuka"
    title: "Sithembele Sipuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sithembele_Anton_Sipuka"
    title: "Sithembele Anton Sipuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sithembele_Anton_Sipuka"
    title: "Sithembele Anton Sipuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sithembele_Sibuka"
    title: "Sithembele Sibuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sithembele_Anton_Sipuka"
    title: "Sithembele Anton Sipuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sithembele_Anton_Sipuka"
    title: "Sithembele Anton Sipuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sithembele_Anton_Sipuka"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1247413"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump