# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/salesius-mugambi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:55:41.895Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/salesius-mugambi"
name: "Salesius Mugambi"
slug: "salesius-mugambi"
description: "Salesius Mugambi is a Kenyan Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Meru between the years 2002 and 2025. He was appointed bishop of Meru on 1 December 2001 by Pope John Paul II. On 1 January 2026, having attained the mandatory retirement age for Catholic bishops, he retired from pastoral care of Meru Diocese. He was succeeded the same day by Bishop Jackson Murugara, previously Coadjutor bishop at Meru."
tagline: "Kenyan Catholic prelate (born 1951)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Template-Bishop.svg/330px-Template-Bishop.svg.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1951-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.3
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.934917333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesius_Mugambi"
    title: "Salesius Mugambi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesius_Mugambi"
    title: "Salesius Mugambi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesius_Mugambi"
    title: "Salesius Mugambi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesius_Mugambi"
    title: "Salesius Mugambi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesius_Mugambi"
    title: "Salesius Mugambi"
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  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesius_Mugambi"
    title: "Salesius Mugambi"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16988312"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump