Eliud Wabukala Biography
Eliud Wabukala (born Bungoma West District, 1951) is a Kenyan Anglican Archbishop. He is Bishop of the Diocese of All Saints Cathedral and the fifth Primate of the Anglican Church of Kenya. The Archbishop was a widower, following the death of his wife in 2010, and had five adult children from his first marriage. He got married for the second time at 11 May 2012, in a ceremony that took place in Mombasa.
He was raised in an Anglican family and as a child he used to walk 10 km daily in both directions to attend Malakisi Primary School. He went to attend Butonge Primary School and Kolanya High School, where he completed his studies in 1969. Afterwards he worked as an untrained teacher at Butonge Secondary School to help educate his two sisters and five brothers. He started to work as a clerical officer in the Nakuru Provincial Commissioners office, being promoted to the level of district officer two in Narok. He concluded that this was not his vocation, so he returned to untrained teaching, in Kitale, in 1972. He entered Kaimosi Teachers College to become a qualified teacher, finishing his studies in 1974. Wabukala went to work as a qualified teacher at Naifarm Primary School, in Kitale, being moved to Bungoma afterwards. There he was promoted to Inspector of Schools in charge of the Butonge Zone in Sirisia Division.
Eliud Wabukala Religious career
In 1985, he left his profession to study Theology at the St. Paul’s Theological College, in Limuru, finishing his studies in 1988. He still had the obligation to work for the Teachers Service Commission, teaching at the Matulo Secondary School, in Webuye, and at the Nagina Girls High School, in Busia.
In 1990, Wabukala received a scholarship from the Anglican Church of Canada to study at the Wycliffe College at Toronto School of Theology, of the University of Toronto, in Canada, where he became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1994.Returning to Kenya, he was a lecturer at St. Paul’s Theological College, in Limuru, where he became academic dean.
Wabukala left office, to be elected the first Bishop of Bungoma in 13 October 1996, remaining in office for the next 12 years. Wabukala was elected Archbishop of Kenya on 24 April 2009, succeeding outgoing Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi. He was enthroned at All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi, on 5 July 2009.He was national vice-chairman of the National Council of Churches of Kenya, from 2000 to 2004, and national chairman from 2004 to 2009.
Wabukala is the serving Chairperson of National Anti Corruption Campaign Steering Committee having been appointed by Mwai Kibaki the President of the Republic of Kenya. He previously served as an NACCSC Committee Member for five years.
Wabukala is a leading name in the Anglican realignment movement, both at the Global South and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, like his predecessor. He is the chairman of GAFCON and as such a supporter of the Anglican Church in North America admission at the Anglican Communion
Eliud Wabukala is currently serving as the Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya and the Chairperson of Kenya National Anti Corruption Campaign Steering Committee. He is also the Chairman of GAFCON – Global Anglicans and a Chairman of the ACK Provincial College. Archbishop Wabukala is a former Chairman of the National Council of Churches of Kenya and has previously served as the Academic Dean of St. Paul’s University, where he also served as a lecturer and administrator.
He has been involved in many peace mitigations and reconciliation processes following the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya. He was an active stakeholder in the Interfaith Ufungamano meetings, from where he found his way into the Kofi Annan led peace talks. Archbishop Wabukala has also been involved in the reform process in South Sudan. He is a graduate of Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Canada, Makerere University and St. Paul’s College Limuru.
Eliud Wabukala
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