AFRICA/KENYA – New Rector for St. Matthias Mulumba Major seminary in the diocese of Eldoret

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 12 March 2014 appointed Rector of St. Matthias Mulumba national major seminary, in the diocese of Eldoret (Kenya), Rev. Douglas Muriungi Mwija, of the diocesan clergy of Meru.
The new Rector was born on 12 December 1957. He studied at St. Augustine major seminary and St. Thomas Aquinas major Seminary. Since 2011 he had been Acting Rector of St. Matthias Mulumba Seminary. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 05/09/2014)