John Oballa Owaa

Who is John Oballa Owaa?

Pope Benedict XVI appointed John Oballa Owaa the Bishop of Ngong Diocese, Kenya on 7 January 2012.

Bishop John Oballa Owaa had been the Rector and Professor of St. Thomas Aquinas National Major in Nairobi, Kenya. John Oballa Owaa was born on 28 August 1958 at Ahero, Nyando District, Kenya. He was incardinated and Ordained a priest of Kisumu, Kenya on 28 August 1986.

He studied in Kenya, He died his 'O' levels at St. Peter's Minor Seminary in Mukumu and then procceeded to do his 'A' levels at 'Tindinyo college'. Tindinyo College has since been turned to a Major seminary and Theologicum, Later he joined St. Augustine Senior Seminary, Mabanga from 1980 to 1982 and St. Thomas Aquinas National Major Seminary, Nairobi from 1982 to 1986. He later went to Rome for studies and obtained a Licentiate and PhD in Canon Law at the Pontifical Urban University. In Rome he also worked as an official of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care, from 1995 to 1997.

Bishop John Oballa Owaa was consecrated on the 14th of April 2012 in Ngong the Principal consecrator being John Cardinal Njue .

Oballa with Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski