Caesar Gatimu
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The Right Reverend Caesar Gatimu (born 18 May 1921, Limuru, Kenya - died 20 February 1987, Nyeri, Kenya) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nyeri, Kenya.
Vocation[]
On 17 March 1947, aged 25, Gatimu was ordained as a priest of the Archdiocese of Nyeri, Kenya.
On 18 April 1961, close to age 40, he was appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of Nyeri and as Bishop Titular of Abila in Palaestina. The following month he was ordained as the Bishop Titular of Abila in Palaestina. His principal consecrator was Pope John XXIII. On 25 November 1964, aged 43, he was appointed Bishop of Nyeri.
Death[]
On 20 February 1987, he died at the age of 65, having been a priest for almost 40 years and a bishop for more than twenty years.
Legacy[]
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Categories:
- 1921 births
- 1987 deaths
- People from Nyeri County
- Participants in the Second Vatican Council
- 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Kenya
- Roman Catholic bishops of Nyeri
- Kenyan Roman Catholic bishops