Church Roman Catholic Church Role Religious Leader In office 1964 - 2002 Successor Cornelius Schilder | Predecessor Joannes de Reeper Ordination July 13, 1952 Name Colin Davies Previous post Priest | |
See Roman Catholic Diocese of Ngong Born 10 June 1924 (age 99)
Las Palmas, Spain ( 1924-06-10 ) | ||
Colin Cameron Davies (10 June 1924 – 8 January 2017) was a Spanish-born Kenyan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
Davies was born in Las Palmas, Spain to Arthur and Ellen Mary (neé Joyce) Davies, the third in the family of six children. He was ordained a priest on 13 July 1952 in the religious order of the St. Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill. He was appointed prefect of Ngong on 9 July 1964. He was appointed bishop of Ngong, Kenya, on 9 December 1976 and ordained bishop on 26 February 1977. Davies retired from the diocese on 23 November 2002. He died in Freshfield, Lancashire, England on 8 January 2017, aged 92.
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