Education
Seoka studied at Eshowe College of Education in Zululand and at the University of Chicago, in the United States. He studied for the Anglican priesthood at Street Bede’s College, Umtata, and was ordained in 1975.
Seoka studied at Eshowe College of Education in Zululand and at the University of Chicago, in the United States. He studied for the Anglican priesthood at Street Bede’s College, Umtata, and was ordained in 1975.
He has been the Bishop of Pretoria since 1998. He was a curate at Street Augustine"s, in Umlazi, and then rector of Street Peter"s, in Greytown. After further incumbencies both in South Africa and Chicago, he was appointed Dean of Pretoria in 1996.
He was elected its bishop in 1998, a post he still holds.
He was one of the signants, on behalf of Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, of the Global South Primates letter to the Crown Nominations Commission of the new Archbishop of Canterbury, on 20 July 2012. Seoka has been prominent in his support for the victims of the Marikana Massacre.
Seoka was exonerated by an investigatory committee of misconduct, in October 2012, of the charges made by members of the Cathedral of Saint Alban the Martyr that he had stolen 500,000 rands of diocesan trust funds.