Ellinah Wamukoya

She later admitted that being the first female bishop in the Anglican church bore a great weight of responsibility and it was her responsibility to prove that women were suited to the role, adding "I know that the whole world is looking up to me to see if I will deliver." She visited Ireland in 2015, preaching at the St Macartin's Cathedral, Enniskillen on 25 January.

Wamukoya was not initially a candidate to succeed Meshack Mabuza as Anglican Bishop of Swaziland, but after seven rounds of inconclusive elections she was elected by a 2/3 majority of the members of the Elective Assembly on 18 July 2012. She was consecrated on 17 November 2012 by Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, who called it a "a great occasion". No official representative of Swazi king Mswati III attended the ceremony. The ceremony had been led by David Dinkebogile, who said that Wamukoya was a bishop, "not a black woman, not an African, not a Swazi woman" and "She was to be pastor to all, to men and women, to black and white, to Swazis and all others in her diocese".

Ellinah Ntombi Wamukoya (born 1951) is a Swazi Anglican bishop. Since 2012, she has served as the diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Eswatini. She is the first woman to be elected as a bishop of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and of the whole African continent. In 2016, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.