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Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Rev. Fr. John Obala Owaa as the new Bishop of Ngong. Fr Obala succeeds Bishop Cornelius Schilder who resigned. Until his new appointment Fr Obala was the Rector of St Thomas Aquinas National Seminary in Nairobi.

Previously Pope had also appointed Rev. Fr. Joseph Mbatia as the new Bishop of Nyahururu. Fr. Mbatia succeeds Bishop Luigi Paiaro who has attained the retirement age. The Bishop-elect has been the Vicar General of the Diocese of Nyahururu since 2005 as well as a Parish Priest in Manunga.

Pope has also named 22 new cardinals on Friday, including Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, in a set of appointments that reflected the pope’s reliance on Italians and Vatican insiders at a time when the church’s population base has shifted to the Southern Hemisphere.

Among the 18 new cardinals under age 80 — the age group eligible to participate in choosing the next pope — seven are Italians and only two came from dioceses in developing countries: India and Brazil (another came from Hong Kong).

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