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Henry Juma Odonya
Henry Juma Odonya (SPS), (born 10 December 1976 ) is a Kenyan Catholic prelate who serves as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kitale since November 2022. He was appointed bishop on 4 November 2022 by Pope Francis. He succeeded Bishop Maurice Anthony Crowley, the Bishop Emeritus of Kitale, Kenya, who retired. Background and education He was born on 10 December 1976 in Nairobi, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi, in Kenya. He studied at ''St. Mary's Major Seminary'' in Molo, Kenya, Molo, for his spiritual year in 1997. He then studied philosophy at ''St. Augustine Major Seminary Mabanga'' in Mabanga, Diocese of Bungoma from 1998 until 1999. He then transferred to ''St. Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary'' in Nairobi, where he studied Theology from 2000 until 2004. In 2008 he graduated with a Licentiate of Sacred Theology, Licentiate in Missiology from the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, Italy. Priest While still a seminarian, he became an Associate of the St ...
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