James Maria Wainaina Kungu | |
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Bishop of Muranga, Kenya | |
Church | Catholic Church |
Archdiocese | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri |
See | Muranga |
Appointed | 4 April 2009 |
Installed | 27 June 2009 |
Predecessor | Peter Kihara Kariuki |
Successor | Incumbent |
Orders | |
Ordination | 15 December 1984 |
Consecration | 27 June 2009 by John Cardinal Njue |
Rank | Bishop |
Personal details | |
Born | James Maria Wainaina Kungu 23 December 1956 Ngenya, Diocese of Nyeri, Kenya |
Styles of James Maria Wainaina Kungu | |
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Reference style | |
Spoken style | His Lordship |
Religious style | Bishop |
James Maria Wainaina Kungu (born 23 December 1956) is a Kenyan Catholic prelate who serves as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Muranga. He was appointed bishop of Muranga on 4 April 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI
He was born on 23 December 1956, at Ngenya, Diocese of Nyeri, Nyeri County, Kenya. He studied philosophy at the St. Augustine Major Seminary in Mabanga, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bungoma from 1978 until 1980. He then studied Theology at the St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Nairobi, in the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi from 1980 until 1984. He studied at the Pontifical University of Saint Anselm in Padua, Italy from 1996, graduating in 2001 with a Licentiate of Sacred Theology. [1] [2]
He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Nyeri on 15 December 1984. On 5 December 2002, he was Incardinated priest of Nyahururu Diocese, Kenya. [1] [2] He served in several roles as priest including as: [2]
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