{"id":25379,"date":"2024-04-11T11:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T11:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/11\/archbishop-muhatia-assumes-as-kccb-chairperson-deputized-by-muheria\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T11:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T11:02:59","slug":"archbishop-muhatia-assumes-as-kccb-chairperson-deputized-by-muheria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/archbishop-muhatia-assumes-as-kccb-chairperson-deputized-by-muheria\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Muhatia assumes as KCCB Chairperson deputized by Muheria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 11 \u2014<\/strong> <strong>The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) has elected Archbishop Maurice Muhatia as the new Chairperson succeeding Archbishop Martin Kivuva<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Kivuva of the Mombasa Diocese announced the leadership change at a press briefing at Roussel House in Nairobi\u2019s Karen on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to introduce the team at the helm, the Archbishop of Nyeri Anthony Muheria becomes the Vice Chair of the conference. We also decided to have a new Chair, Archbishop Maurice Muhatia of Kisumu Diocese,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The leadership change is in line with KCCB regulations that impose a 3-year term for leadership positions.<\/p>\n<p>During the press conference, KCCB commented on several national issues protesting the move by the government to \u2018dilute\u2019 the church\u2019s sponsorship role in church-founded educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Kivuva cited the proposed Basic Education Eill 2024 expressing the conference\u2019s dissatisfaction with proposals it termed as regressive. KCCB said the Bill undermines the role of the church in education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposed new bill now threatens the crucial role of the churches in our education system. We therefore decry and reject the systematic scheme to undermine and weaken our role as the founders of Catholic-sponsored schools,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The conference also denounced the upward review of work permit charges imposed on missionaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exorbitant changes in the work permits paid by missionaries from Sh15,000 to Sh150,000 is unethical and shows a lack of gratitude to people,\u201d Archbishop Muheria stated<\/p>\n<p>KCCB\u2019s press briefing came a day after its elections when it welcomed newly installed Bishops \u2014 Peter Kamomoe and Wallace Ng\u2019ang\u2019a \u2014 who were ordained Auxilary Bishops of Nairobi Archdiocese on April 6.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Minah Mahero.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 11 \u2014 The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) has elected Archbishop Maurice Muhatia as the new Chairperson succeeding Archbishop Martin Kivuva. Archbishop Kivuva of the Mombasa Diocese announced the leadership change at a press briefing at Roussel House in Nairobi\u2019s Karen on Thursday. \u201cI would like to introduce the team at [&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-25379","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\/25379","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=25379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}