April 19, 2021 (Diocese of Bondo)
The second woman to be ordained a priest in the Anglican Church of Kenya, Emily Awino Onyango, has been appointed to serve as assistant bishop in the Diocese of Bondo. She will be the first female Anglican bishop in East and Central Africa.
Onyango currently teaches church history at St. Paul’s University, a private, ecumenical school just outside Nairobi. She is chair of the African Centre for Biblical Equity and is a founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians.
She previously served as academic dean and vice principal of St. Andrew’s College in Kabare and academic dean and principal at St. John’s School of Theology in Kokise. Her books include
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