Since 2008, he was the Administrator of the Holy Family Minor Basica, and doubled as the Family Life Chaplain of ADN.
The author of "Marriage through a Priestly Eye", "Mothers-in-law and Daughters-in-law", and "Root Causes and Solutions to Conflict” holds a master’s degree in Psychology from Tangaza University College (TUC), and a doctorate in Counselling Psychology from the Kenya-based Catholic University of Eastern African (CUEA), an entity of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA).
Bishop Kamomoe is to assist Bishop Paul Kariuki Njiru in the pastoral care of the people of God in Wote Diocese that started off with 31 Parishes, 90 Diocesan Priests, nine Religious Priests, 36 Major Seminarians and 732 Catechists, as well as 200 educational institutions, according to the 22 July 2023 Holy See report.
Curved out from Machakos Catholic Diocese, the 8,009 Km² Diocese has a total population of 987,653 people, 388,946 of them Catholic, who represent 39.4 percent of the population, according to 2023 statistics.
Wote Diocese covers the territory of Kenya’s Makueni County and borders various Kenyan Counties, including Machakos to the North, Kitui to the East, Taita Taveta to the South, and Kajiado to the West.
The two-year-old Kenyan Episcopal See in the Metropolitan of ADN has been under the pastoral care of Bishop Norman King’oo Wambua of the neighbouring Catholic Diocese of Machakos as Apostolic Administrator since his appointment in September 2024.
In the 26 September 2024 statement announcing the appointment of Bishop King’oo as Apostolic Administrator, the Apostolic Nunciature in Kenya appealed for prayers for the “the full and complete recovery” of the pioneer Local Ordinary of Kenyan Diocese, Bishop Kariuki.
Bishop Kariuki, who started his Episcopal Ministry in July 2009 as Local Ordinary of Kenya’s Catholic Diocese of Embu was installed as Bishop of Wote Diocese on 30 September 2023.
In July 2024, Bishop Kariuki delegated “pastoral and administrative responsibilities” of Wote Diocese to Fr. Patrick W. Ndonga, who he said “will be the point of contact for any urgent matters that may arise”.
In the letter he addressed to “All Clergy, Religious Men & Women and Laity of the Catholic Diocese of Wote”, the 62-year-old Kenyan Catholic Bishop announced that he was beginning his “annual leave effective immediately, July 3rd, 2024.”
