African bishop back for feast day
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Bishop Michael Odiwa, from Homa Bay Diocese in Kenya, made a surprise visit to Adelaide this month, celebrating the fourth anniversary of his episcopal ordination on the feast of St Josephine Bakhita.
A canon lawyer, he ministered in the Hectorville parish and in the Tribunal during his five years in Adelaide.
At the feast day Mass in St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral on February 9, Bishop Odiwa spoke of a conversation with the Nuncio about his ordination date and his insistence that it have meaning for him.
The Bishop said he picked the feast of St Bakhita because it linked “poverty with holiness”.
Pope Francis has designated St Bakhita’s feast day as the the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human trafficking.
