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Episcopal Consecration and Installation of Bishop of Ngong on 14_04_2012 2.mp4
John Oballa Owaa (born 28 August 1958, Ahero, Nyando District, Kenya) is the bishop of Ngong Diocese in Kenya.
Owaa did his 'O' levels at St. Peter's Minor Seminary in Mukumu and then did his 'A' levels at Tindinyo College, which has since been turned to a major seminary and theologicum. He later attended St. Augustine Senior Seminary, Mabanga, from 1980 to 1982, became rector and Professor of St. Thomas Aquinas National Major in Nairobi, and was incardinated and ordained a priest of Kisumu (Arch-Diocese), Kenya on 28 August 1986, his 28th birthday.
He then went to Rome for studies and obtained a licentiate and Ph.D. 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.
Owaa was appointed the bishop of Ngong Diocese on by Pope Benedict XVI on 7 January 2012.consecrated on the 14th of April 2012 in Ngong, with the principal consecrator being John Cardinal Njue.
The Diocese of Ngong had been vacant since the resignation of Bishop Cornelius Schilder, M.H.M. in August 2009.
The Diocese of Ngong covers an area of 47,000 square kilometres, a population of about 1,011,000 people, Catholics 83,247, 29 parishes, 53 priests (39 diocesan and 14 religious), 40 religious brothers, 143 sisters and 19 seminarians. Among the latter is seminarian John Kinuthia Njeri, who is undertaking studies in Tindinyo seminary Theology II.