From the Church Times-ONE of the six Kenyan bishops who attended the Lambeth Conference, as well as the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in Jerusalem last year, has been elected Archbishop of Kenya.
He is Dr Eliud Wabukala, who is 58, has been Bishop of Bungoma since in 1996, and chairs the National Council of Churches of Kenya. Bungoma has a diocesan link with Peterborough. The Bishop of Peterborough, the Rt Revd Ian Cundy, described Dr Wabukala on Tuesday as “a reconciler both politically in the country and within the House of Bishops”. He succeeds Arch bishop Benjamin Nzimbi.
Thousands of Christians are re ported to have thronged the streets of Bungoma to welcome the Archbishop-elect on his return home from the election. The election process at All Saints’ Cathedral in Nairobi last Friday was described by the local press as “peaceful, joyous and orderly”.
In his acceptance speech, Bishop Wabukala urged political leaders to put aside divisive politics and work on developmental issues that would benefit all Kenyans. Kenya is still in crisis after the disputed election of President Kibaki in December 2007. Bishops and others at a provincial meeting of the Anglican Church of Kenya in February were outspoken about government corruption, moral decadence, and a self-inflicted lack of food security.
The National Council of Churches was even more trenchant in a press release it issued in March. It described government ministers as spending their time quarrelling about peripheral issues and “pea cocking around their country”; the President as “moribund”; and the Prime Minister as “ineffectual”. It urged reform of the judiciary, and prosecution of the perpetrators of the post-election violence.
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http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=74524
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