Emily Onyango: I always knew I’d be a church leader

Dr Emily Onyango during her consecration as the first woman assistant bishop of Anglican Church Bondo diocese. [Isaiah Gwengi].

On Saturday, a priest in the Anglican Church of Kenya realised her childhood dream of being among the first women leaders in the church.

Rev Dr Emily Onyango, a lecturer at St Paul’s University described her consecration and enthronement as the first woman assistant bishop of Bondo diocese as something that was always meant to be. “It all began in my younger days when I was brought up in a Christian family and I was convinced that it was the path meant for me,” she says.