John Paul Mwaniki

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John Paul Mwaniki OSB (* 1967 in Kenya ) is a Kenyan clergyman who has been abbot of the Sacred Heart Abbey of Inkamana in Vryheid ( South Africa ) since 2018 .

Life

John Paul Mwaniki was born in Kenya in 1967, where he also received his school education. So he attended, among other things, the Aquinas High School in the capital Nairobi , where he also went to Tindinyo College (1982-1987). He then moved to the University of Nairobi and the Catholic University of Eastern Africa , where he studied from 1988 to 1995 and completed his studies with a bachelor's degree and a postgraduate diploma in education (PGDE) in sociology and education . He was also active in university sports. According to other sources, he also attended St Joseph's Theological Institute in Cedara , South Africa .

Already on January 29 In 1994, Mwaniki at Priory Tigoni in Tigoni , a northwestern suburb of Nairobi in the province of Nairobi (Nairobi today County), his profession from. He then made his solemn profession in 2000 and was then appointed a deacon in the Abbey Church of Inkamana in the South African city of Vryheid . He was ordained a priest on December 15, 2001 in Tigoni. Among other things, he was in the following period from the beginning of 2002 to October 2009 (according to LinkedIn) educator and parish priest at the Tigoni Priory, also called Prince of Peace Conventual Priory or Prince of Peace Benedictine Priory , which belongs to the Diocese of Marsabit or belongs to the Archdiocese of Nairobi . More precisely, he was novice master of the Benedictine monastery from 2002 to 2005 and then acted from 2005 to 2008 as parish priest and superior of the Benedictine community in Ruaraka , in the northeast of the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

In 2011, he transferred his stability to the Sacred Heart Abbey of Inkamana and, following the resignation of Abbot Gottfried / Godfrey Sieber in February 2015, he was subsequently elected prior administrator of the abbey for three years . From 2011 to 2015 he was the cellar master and interest master of Inkamana; prior to that he was for a time the rector and superior of the Cedara study house. Even before his appointment as prior administrator, Mwaniki worked as a prior under Sieber .

At the congress of the Benedictine abbots in September 2016, the Alliance Inter Monastères (AIM) stated that in almost all geographical regions the superiors of the communities meet regularly to exchange ideas, but there is a shortage in Africa. The aforementioned African abbots met during the abbots' congress and discussed the further procedure for regular meetings. For this reason, Romain Botta (abbot of Agbang Abbey in Togo ), Espérance Sarr (mother abbess of Keur Guilaye Abbey in Senegal ) and John Paul Mwaniki (at that time still Prior Administrator of the Sacred Heart Abbey of Inkamana), the Pan-African Benedictine association (ger .: Pan African Benedictine Encounter in short ABPA / ABE ) was founded. The commission, which at that time only consisted of these three members, was founded in order to be able to organize meetings among themselves from now on. A preparatory commission was convened in the monastery of Nairobi for January 2020 to plan the meeting of French and English-speaking superiors in 2021.

On February 10, 2018, Mwaniki was elected third abbot of Inkamana by the convention and was appointed as such on April 21 in the abbey church built in the 1950s by Bishop Xolelo Thaddaeus Kumalo . In addition to Kiswahili , Mwaniki also speaks English .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Inkamana Votes in its First African Abbot: Fr John Paul Mwaniki (English), accessed on February 20, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c News from the Abbey In: MISSIONSBLÄTTER der Benediktiner-Missionare Uznach, 122nd year, 2018, No. 2, May – June, p. 2, accessed on February 20, 2020
  3. ^ Monastery in Inkamana / South Africa , accessed on February 20, 2020
  4. ↑ Welcome to Father Prior John-Paul , accessed February 20, 2020
  5. ↑ a b c d e PAN-AFRICAN ASSOCIATION (2020) - Pan-African Association - Project 6731 - Preparing a Meeting of Superiors of Africa , accessed February 20, 2020
  6. ↑ Monastic Elections and Appointments since 2017 , accessed February 20, 2020
predecessor Office successor
Gottfried Sieber Abbot of the Sacred Heart Abbey of Inkamana
since 2018 		-
personal data
SURNAME Mwaniki, John Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan clergyman and abbot of the Sacred Heart Abbey of Inkamana
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Kenya