The Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, has erected the new Metropolitan Province of Eldoret and appointed the Rt. Rev. Joseph Obanyi Sagwe, until now Bishop of Kakamega, as its first Metropolitan Archbishop.
The announcement was made on Saturday, November 14, 2026, at 2.00 p.m. Kenyan time (12 noon Rome time), through an official notification addressed to the Bishops of Kenya by the Chargé d’Affaires of the Apostolic Nunciature in Kenya.
With this development, the Catholic Church in Kenya now has five ecclesiastical provinces: Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Nyeri and Eldoret.
The new Metropolitan Province comprises the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Eldoret and four suffragan dioceses: Lodwar, Kapsabet, Kitale and Kericho. The four dioceses previously belonged to the Metropolitan Provinces of Kisumu and Nairobi.
