Dabula Anthony Mpako (born 6 September 1959) is a South African prelate of the Catholic Church who was appointed as the Archbishop of Pretoria on 30 April 2019.
From 1986 to 1987 he was assistant pastor of the parish attached to the Stigmatines congregation and from 1987 to 1990 he was first a lecturer and then Rector of the St. Paul Preparatory Seminary in Hammanskraal.
[1] In 1999, Mpako was one of the founders of the African Catholic Priests' Solidarity Movement (ACPSM) and as its secretary served as its spokesperson.
The organization expressed a "profound sense of alienation" because the Church was still "an institution rooted in the colonial and apartheid past to one reflecting the cultural ethos of the black community".
"[6] From 1999 to 2019 he was pastor at parishes in Mabopane, Capital Park, and Monavoni, and for several years was Vicar forane for the North-Western Deanery of the Archdiocese of Pretoria.
[1] In August 2018 he was elected first Vice President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC).