Wilybard Lagho

Willybard Kitogho Lagho (born 23 March 1958) is a Kenyan Roman Catholic prelate who is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Malindi, Kenya. He was appointed bishop on 28 December 2020 by Pope Francis.

Early life and education He was born on 23 March 1958 in Taita-Taveta County, Diocese of Mombasa, in Kenya. He studied at St. James Primary School in Mgange Dawida Village, in Taita-Taveta, from 1965 until 1974. He attended St. Charles Lwanga Secondary School in Mombasa for his O-Level education between 1974 and 1978. He then completed his A-Level studies at Queen Apostles Minor Seminary in Nairobi, from 1978 until 1980.

From 1980 until 1982, he studied Philosophy at the Saint Augustine's Seminary at Mabanga in the Diocese of Bungoma. He then studied Theology at Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary in the Archdiocese of Nairobi from 1982 until 1986.

In April 2024, the members of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), elected Bishop Willybard Kitogho Lagho as the chairman of the conference's Commission for Interreligious Dialogue and Ecumenism (CIRDE). He is deputized by Bishop Joseph Ndembu Mbatia of Nyahururu, until the next elections in 2027. In June the same year, he was elected chairman of the Inter Religious Council of Kenya.