AFRICA/KENYA – Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Nairobi

Vatican City – The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Obed Muriungi Karobia, O.F.M. Conv., until now supreme moderator of the Franciscan Servants of Mary Queen of Love public association of the faithful of the diocese of Ngong, assigning him the titular see of Timida.
Msgr. Obed Muriungi Karobia, O.F.M. Conv., was born on 29 June 1979. He studied philosophy at Saint Bonaventure College in Lusaka, Zambia, and obtained a bachelor’s degree in theology from Tangaza College, Kenya.
He joined the Friars Minor Conventual, and was ordained a priest on 28 July 2012.
He has held the following roles: parish vicar and parish priest of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Nairobi; head of vocations in the Custody of the Friars Minor Conventual of Kenya , formator and bursar of the House of Formation of his Institute in Nairobi , provincial minister of the Kenyan Province of the Friars Minor Conventual , and president of the African Federation of Friars Minor Conventual . He is a PhD candidate in psychology at Daystar University, Nairobi, and since 2024, on appointment by the Dicastery for Evangelization, supreme moderator of the Franciscan Servants of Mary Queen of Love public association of the faithful in the diocese of Ngong.

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