AMECEA: Bishop Alick Banda Elected Vice- Chairman of 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.

Bishop Alick Banda with AMECEA  Secretary General Fr. Ferdinand Lugonzo

Bishop Banda
says that CUEA as an institution of AMECEA is a success story of the
association, now that it has come to a stage where it competes with other
universities within the region, and beyond. “CUEA is recognized internationally
as an academic institution of high quality standards for which we thank all our
staff, (both academic and nonacademic),
for all the success of the University,” he commended.

“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 13th
November, 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
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