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Charles May (bishop)

South African Anglican priest

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ48799147 ↗
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The Right Reverend Mthetheleli Charles May is an Anglican bishop in South Africa. He was elected as bishop by the Synod of Bishops sitting in Johannesburg in May 2015. He was consecrated and enthroned as bishop of the Highveld on 12 September 2015.

He was previously the Dean of Johannesburg.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charles May (bishop)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.