Nairobi, 05 July, 2024 / 9:52 pm (ACI Africa).
The Rector Major of the Salesians of Saint Don Bosco (SDB) has appointed Kenyan-born Fr. Prof. Kevin Otieno Mwandha as the new Vice-Rector of the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) in Rome.
“The mandate will start on 3 August 2024 and he will be the first Salesian from the African continent to take on this role in the history of our University,” Ángel Cardinal Fernández Artime says in the Thursday, July 4 appointment.
Thanking the Rector Major “for the trust”, Fr. Otieno, who takes over from Slovakian-born Fr. Michal Vojtas expressed his “personal commitment to carry out my mandate” in close collaboration with the Rector Magnificus, Fr. Andrea Bozzolo.
Born in April 1975 in Kenya’s Catholic Archdiocese of Kisumu, Fr. Otieno joined the Salesians in August 1999. He did his Novitiate in Moshi, Tanzania, and made his perpetual vows in Nairobi in August 2006; he was ordained a Salesian Priest in June 2008 in Kisumu Archdiocese.
The alumnus of the Nairobi-based Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) also obtained a Baccalaureate in Theology and a Licentiate in Canon Law from UPS, before receiving his Doctorate from the Faculty of Canon Law of the Rome-based Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in 2014.
