Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel, Date of Birth

Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel

South African pastor and academic

Date of Birth: 15-Dec-1959

Profession: pastor

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel is a South African pastor and academic.
She was the first female minister to be ordained by a Dutch Reformed Church in Southern Africa.Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel (born 15 December 1959) is a South African Reformed Church minister.
Plaatjies van Huffel was educated at the Bergriver High School in Wellington, and studied at University of the Western Cape, the University of South Africa (UNISA) and Pretoria University.
She is the holder of two doctorates in Theology , one from UNISA (2003 Thesis on: Women in the theological anthropology of the Afrikaans Reformed Churches) and one from University of Pretoria (2009 Thesis on: Doleantie Church Polity and the church polity development of the mission churches in South Africa.
She was called to Robertson-Robertson East combination congregation and was ordained on 26 November 1992 as the first woman minister of the Word in the Dutch Reformed family She is the first woman to be elected as moderator of the General Synod of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA).
This honor was bestowed on her during the General Synod of URCSA in Namibia 2012.
She is currently teaching Church Polity at the University Stellenbosch.
She was elected as one of eight presidents of the World Council of Churches (WCC) at the General Assembly of the WCC in Busan, Korea, 2013.
She will serve in this position until 2021.