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Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Jackson Murugara of the Consolata Missionaries the Coadjutor Bishop of Meru diocese.

The news of Fr Murugara’s appointment was officially published in L’Ossevatore Romano in Rome yesterday.

The Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya His Excellency, Archbishop Bert Van Megen also conveyed the message of the appointment to the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) through anofficial communication.

Until his appointment, Bishop-Elect Murugara, was serving at Consolata Shrine, Westlands, Nairobi.

The bishop-elect was born in 1970 in Kamanyaki, Tharaka Nithi County, Meru.  His journey into the priesthood began with his foundational education at Muthitwa Primary School, where he studied from 1981 to 1988, before proceeding to Mitiri Boys’s School for Form One in 1989 and later attended St Pius X Minor Seminary in Nkubu, Meru, from 1990 to 1992.

From 1993 to 1996, he pursued a degree in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Consolata Philosophicum, Karen and graduated with a degree from the Pontifical Urbanian University in Rome.

His spiritual journey deepened when he undertook his novitiate at Sagana in 1996–1997, culminating in his first religious vows in 1997.