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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Gikomba_Hawker on August 06, 2021, 08:01:51 PM
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Okeno’s election, following quickly after Kenya’s first appointment of a female bishop in January, underlines a new trend in Kenya and in Africa, where more women clerics are taking top leadership positions in the church.
“I see it as a calling from God,” Okeno, who has served the Anglican church for more than 20 years, told Religion News Service in a telephone interview. “There could be some challenges, especially given how our society views women, but it’s majority men who elected me. So this is a confirmation that I am their leader. I am confident.”
Earlier this year, the Rev. Emily Onyango was ordained as an assistant bishop of Bondo, a diocese on the edge of Lake Victoria. The 59-year-old scholar and researcher became Kenya’s first female Anglican bishop and the first in the Anglican church in East and Central Africa.
“I may be the first female bishop in ACK (Anglican Church of Kenya) from the Diocese of Bondo, and may the doors for other female bishops be open. I will join indeed a house of brother bishops but pray they will remember to include me as a sister bishop,” Onyango said in her acceptance speech on Jan. 20.
...“Western Kenya dioceses are liberal and are ordaining women. Most of the Kenyan Anglican dioceses are conservative,” he added.
Anglican Church in Kenya appoints first two women bishops
https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2021/08/06/89000/