Mpole Samuel Masemola

Rev. Mpole Samuel Masemola is currently engaged at the College of the Transfiguration, Makhanda, Eastern Cape, where he is Formation Portfolio lead and Formator, project supervisor for the Research for Transformation Project, and Seminary Pastoral Listener. He also has responsibility for the college’s liturgies. In addition, Rev. Mpole lectures in Anglican Studies, Liturgy and Homiletics and is responsible for the college’s parish placement program.

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Ordained a Deacon in the Diocese of Christ the King, in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa in 2002, Rev. Mpole was ordained a Priest in the Diocese of Europe in 2006, where he served in various capacities in Oslo and Bergen, Norway. During this time he made frequent work trips to London, UK, and spent a short period in Dublin, Ireland, but ultimately returned to South Africa, where he has held various clerical posts. These have included posts as Priest-in-Charge (interregnum) at Diepkloof, Rector at Christ the King Church at Sophiatown and at St Thomas’ Church at Linden, all within the Diocese of Johannesburg.

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Rev. Mpole lists his interests as “music”, “all things culinary”, “contemporary literature”, especially to do with “culture, philosophy, and theology”, “travel”, sport, including tennis and soccer, as well as hiking and the odd game of chess. He is also a dancer, enjoying both Latin American and ballroom moves. Some may be interested to know that Rev. Mpole plays jazz clarinet (he says he is out of practice, we shall see, he follows in the footstep of his father, who was apparently quite proficient), sings with a baritone voice and reads tonic-solfa, stave/staff and some Gregorian notation.