Meru, 28 April, 2020 / 11:47 pm (ACI Africa).
The Bishop Emeritus of Kenya’s Meru Diocese, Bishop Silas Silvius Njiru succumbed to COVID-19 in the early hours of Tuesday, April 28 in Italy where he has been residing. He was 91.
“Bishop Silas Njiru was residing at the Blessed Joseph Allamano house in Alpignano, Turin Italy. He was taken to Rivoli Hospital, due to COVID-19 infection, where he passed away on Tuesday, April 28 at 12.30 a.m.,” the Secretary General of the Consolata Missionaries, Fr. Pedro Jose da Silva Luoro announced in a statement.
He added, “Let us pray for his Eternal Rest.”
Bishop Silas is the second African Prelate to die of COVID-19 after Bishop Gérard Mulumba Kalemba of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who died on April 15 at the age of 82.
Born in Meru, eastern Kenya in 1928, the late Kenyan-born Bishop was ordained a priest in December 1955.