The Archbishop of Cape Town is the Primate / Metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
The current Archbishop is the Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba
Robert Gray (1809-1872) was the first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town.
| Bishops of Cape Town | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
| 1847 | 1853 | Robert Gray | Resigned his overlarge diocese. |
| 1853 | 1873 | Received fresh letters patent for a new, smaller diocese. | |
| 1874 | 1897 | William West Jones | Became Archbishop of Cape Town. |
| Archbishops of Cape Town | |||
| 1897 | 1908 | William West Jones | Died in office. |
| 1909 | 1930 | William Carter | Previously Bishop of Zululand and then of Pretoria. |
| 1931 | 1938 | Francis Phelps | Translated from Grahamstown; died in office. |
| 1938 | 1948 | Russell Darbyshire | Translated from Glasgow and Galloway; died in office. |
| 1948 | 1957 | Geoffrey Clayton | Translated from Johannesburg; died in office. |
| 1957 | 1963 | Joost de Blank | Translated from Stepney. |
| 1964 | 1974 | Robert Selby Taylor | Previously Bishop of Northern Rhodesia, then of Pretoria, then of Grahamstown; later Bishop of Central Zambia. |
| 1974 | 1981 | Bill Burnett | Previously Bishop of Bloemfontein and then of Grahamstown. |
| 1981 | 1986 | Philip Russell | Previously Bishop of Port Elizabeth and then of Natal. |
| 1986 | 1996 | Desmond Tutu | Previously Bishop of Lesotho and then of Johannesburg; now Archbishop emeritus (of Cape Town). |
| 1996 | 2007 | Njongonkulu Ndungane | Translated from Kimberley and Kuruman. |
| 2007 | present | Thabo Makgoba | Translated from Grahamstown. |
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