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Eliud Wamukekhe Wabukala (born 1951 in Bungoma West District) is a Kenyan Anglican Archbishop well-known for his role in the Anglican realignment. He is the fifth Primate of the Anglican Church of Kenya and the Bishop of All Saints Cathedral. Following the loss of his wife in 2010, the Archbishop became a widower, and he has five grown children from his first marriage. He married for the second time on May 11, 2012, at a ceremony in Mombasa.

Early Life

He was raised in an Anglican family and used to trek 10 kilometers everyday in both directions to Malakisi Primary School as a child. He moved on to Butonge Primary School and Kolanya High School, where he graduated in 1969. Following that, he worked as an unskilled teacher at Butonge Secondary School to assist in the education of his two sisters and five brothers. He began as a clerical officer in the Nakuru Provincial Commissioner's office before rising to the rank of district officer two in Narok. In 1972, he realized that this was not his calling and returned to untrained teaching in Kitale. He enrolled in Kaimosi Teachers College to become a trained teacher, and he graduated in 1974. Wabukala began to work as a trained teacher at Naifarm Primary School in Kitale before being transferred to Bungoma. He was promoted to Inspector of Schools in charge of the Sirisia Division's Butonge Zone.

Religious profession
He left his career in 1985 to study Theology at St. Paul's Theological College in Limuru, where he graduated in 1988. He had to continue working for the Teachers Service Commission, teaching at Matulo Secondary School in Webuye and Nagina Girls High School in Busia.

Wabukala got a scholarship from the Anglican Church of Canada in 1990 to study at the University of Toronto's Wycliffe College at Toronto School of Theology, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in 1994. When he returned to Kenya, he became academic dean of St. Paul's Theological College in Limuru.

Wabukala resigned office to become the first Bishop of Bungoma on October 13, 1996, and served for the next 12 years. On April 24, 2009, Wabukala was elected Archbishop of Kenya, succeeding departing Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi. On July 5, 2009, he was crowned at All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi.

From 2000 to 2004, he was national vice-chairman of Kenya's National Council of Churches, and from 2004 to 2009, he was national chairman.

Wabukala is the current Chairperson of the National Anti-Corruption Campaign Steering Committee, having been nominated by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki. He previously served as a member of the NACCSC Committee for five years.

Wabukala resigned office to become the first Bishop of Bungoma on October 13, 1996, and served for the next 12 years. On April 24, 2009, Wabukala was elected Archbishop of Kenya, succeeding departing Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi. On July 5, 2009, he was crowned at All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi.

From 2000 to 2004, he was national vice-chairman of Kenya's National Council of Churches, and from 2004 to 2009, he was national chairman.

Wabukala is the current Chairperson of the National Anti-Corruption Campaign Steering Committee, having been nominated by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki. He previously served as a member of the NACCSC Committee for five years.