Eliud Wabukala, the new Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya.
The 58 year old Wabukala who has been serving as the Bungoma Bishop was elected by a simple majority in the fourth round, after the contesting clerics failed to secure the compulsory two thirds majority in the first three rounds.
Details here.
Meanwhile,
The outgoing Anglican Archbishop of Kenya Benjamin Nzimbi tops the list of possible members of the proposed Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) which is intended to investigate human rights violations since independence.
The key question here is what will be the new Archbishop's position vis a vis the schismatic North American Province of Bishop Robert Duncan?
ReplyDeleteA lot hangs this. If Wabukala breaks ranks with the other equatorial African Provinces it will be good news for the Anglican Communion, if not ......
The same question will arise next year when Akinola stands down.
Even if Lambeth is asleep on this matter you can be sure that ACNA will not be.
My sources tell me that Wakukala is just as conservative as Nzimbi and is also fully signed up to GAFCON et al.
ReplyDeleteSo don't get too excited, ironically if there is to be a change it will come from Nigeria. My sources (they seem well informed) also say that there's plenty of opposition under the surface to what Akinola's been doing.
¨The outgoing Anglican Archbishop of Kenya Benjamin Nzimbi tops the list of possible members of the proposed Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) which is intended to investigate human rights violations since independence.¨
ReplyDeleteYou know you can´t make TRUTH or JUSTICE RECONCILIATION out of a commission with a excluding Christian, retired Anglican Archbishop or not, at the core...¨Justice violations¨ are to be ¨investigated¨ not ¨cultivated¨ by a fear and hate-mongering pro who has a history of demeaning fellow Kenyans and others.
The animals change but the ¨Circus remains the same.¨
Hear, hear Leonardo you are quite right.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, according to the UK Church Times, I think last week, one of the candidates for the Kenyan election was claiming that 'money was changing hands' prior to the election, presumably to bribe electors - whose money I wonder?
I notice co-incidently and amusingly that the word verification for this post is asking me to type in 'bribio'!
Bishop Bob's bank account must soon be heading for the proverbial 'credit crunch!'.
ReplyDeleteI'm back again to tell Penwatch that he's got the wrong Church Newspaper. The article to which he referred is actually in this week's Church of England newspaper, though what he is doing reading such a schismatically inclined right wing rag leaves me bewildered and somewhat appalled.
ReplyDeleteThe offending article is on page 6 headed "Vote Buying Claim in Kenya's Primate Poll". Please note I am not a subscriber to this paper, but one of my fair weather friends is!
Well Mary Peterson (MKP) I have checked your profile and noted your antipodean inclinations & you have found me out. I do indeed subscribe to the C of E Newspaper as well as the C.T. - but I do not take it seriously and had to rummage deep into my green recycle box to find the offending article.
ReplyDeleteAnyway all, it appears, is not quite openness and transparency in Equatorial Kenya - or at least that's what the C.E.N. reportage would have us think & as it (the C.E.N.) features such luminaries as Ruth Gledhill of the Times amongst its correspondents it surely must be accurate, mustn't it?
Be careful Penwatch! Ruth Gledhill's coverage of matters African has not always been very accurate - if indeed she had anything to do with this article in the first place.
ReplyDeleteP.s. I'm only Antipodean whilst on my travels.