Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi

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Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi
Bishop of Gaborone
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseDiocese of Gaborone
In office30 November 1981 – 5 February 2009
PredecessorUrban Charles Joseph Murphy
SuccessorValentine Tsamma Seane
Orders
Ordination22 July 1963
Consecration6 March 1982
by Peter Fanyana John Butelezi[1]
Personal details
Born(1927-09-14)14 September 1927
Died25 January 2019(2019-01-25) (aged 91)

Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi (14 September 1927 – 25 January 2019) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Gaborone, Botswana, from 1981 until 2009. A convert to Catholicism, in 1957 he started his priesthood training at St Josephs Seminary at Chishawasha in the then Salisbury, Rhodesia. Setlalekgosi became an ordained priest in 1963. He succeeded Urban Charles Joseph Murphy to become the second Roman Catholic bishop in Botswana's history.[2]

References

  1. "Bishop Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
  2. Diocese of Gaborone, Botswana