{"id":126694,"date":"2025-12-14T15:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/pope-leo-xiv-names-fr-vincent-ouma-auxiliary-bishop-of-kisumu-archdiocese\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:04:55","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-names-fr-vincent-ouma-auxiliary-bishop-of-kisumu-archdiocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/pope-leo-xiv-names-fr-vincent-ouma-auxiliary-bishop-of-kisumu-archdiocese\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV names Fr. Vincent Ouma Auxiliary Bishop of Kisumu Archdiocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Dec 14 \u2013 Pope Leo XIV has appointed Father Vincent Odundo as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Kisumu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Until his elevation to the episcopate, Bishop-elect Odundo served as the Vicar General of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kisumu and was also in pastoral charge of St. James the Apostle Parish, Magadi, Kisumu.<\/p>\n<p>Born on June 1, 1978 in Kisumu, Bishop-elect Odundo undertook his philosophical studies at Mabanga National Seminary before proceeding to St. Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary, Nairobi, where he studied theology.<\/p>\n<p>He was ordained a priest on February 20, 2008 for the Archdiocese of Kisumu.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Dec 14 \u2013 Pope Leo XIV has appointed Father Vincent Odundo as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Kisumu Until his elevation to the episcopate, Bishop-elect Odundo served as the Vicar General of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kisumu and was also in pastoral charge of St. James the Apostle Parish, Magadi, Kisumu. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}