End of era as Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth retires after 5 decades

Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of council of Justice and Peace in Rome (right) talks to Archbishop Zachaeus Okoth during the opening of a forum on devolution by interfaith-based organistaions in 2014. [File Standard]

The Catholic fraternity in western Kenya is preparing to mark the end of an era as the expansive Kisumu Archdiocese gets a new archbishop after 40 years.

Next Saturday, outgoing Homa Bay Bishop Philip Arnold Subira Anyolo will be installed as the new archbishop of Kisumu, replacing Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth, 76, who is retiring after five decades on the altar.