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| Rt. Rev. Alick Banda; Vice Chairman CUEA Council |
The Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) Council has elected Rt. Rev Alick Banda of Ndola Diocese (Zambia) a Vice-Chairman of the Council in the election that was held at CUEA -Lang’ata Campus on Tuesday 30th 2014 during the council meeting.
Bishop Banda becomes a Vice chairman to Rt. Rev Maurice Muhatia –Bishop of Nakuru (Kenya), the Chairman of the council who was elected during the 18th AMECEA Plenary Assembly in Malawi.
Speaking to AMECEA Online News, Bishop Banda said, “I am grateful for the trust of the member to me,” he said adding that “This is a service to the church, a service to the university and a service to God which I wholeheartedly took up so that I can make a contribution in my own little way.”
This is the third term for Bishop Banda in CUEA Council. According to him the council is a good opportunity to contribute to the welfare of AMECEA through academia. “Our involvement in education is principally to evangelize using the academia to reaching out to all areas and all frontiers within the Church in AMECEA Region and beyond.”
The Bishop said that through CUEA, the Catholic Church in the region is trying to offer a Catholic identity with a view of bringing out the best in terms of human values in students who go through CUEA.
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| Bishop Alick Banda with AMECEA Secretary General Fr. Ferdinand Lugonzo |
“My wish and my prayer is that as much as the university grows within the local level in Kenya, it should also be growing in the AMECEA Region and that there will come a time when we shall have CUEA Satellite universities in all AMECEA Countries,” he said.
Bishop Banda was born on 15th November 1963 in Mfulira and was ordained a priest in Ndola on 7th August 1994. He was appointed Bishop of Solwezi, Zambia on 30th May, 2007 and was ordained Bishop of the same diocese on 29th July, 2007.
On 13thNovember, 2009, he was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Ndola, and succeeded as the ordinary of the same diocese on 16th January, 2010.
Source: Pamela Adinda, AMECEA Social Communications