Reverend Purity Malinga has just become the 100th Presiding Bishop to be elected by the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. She is the first woman in the church's 200-year history to be elected to this position. As Rev Jennifer Samdaan, a prominent female minister in the church, points out,
There had been 99 men before her. For her to be chosen to lead us is wonderful.
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