Boniface Lele

Boniface Lele in 2007

Boniface Lele (14 April 1947 – 9 April 2014) was a Kenyan prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Kitui and as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mombasa.

Quotes

• I have seen where families send away their daughters -in law and children because of their suspicion. Family rejection of children is an abomination. It is a grave sin in the eyes of God. It is a distortion of the Gospel message of Jesus which is love, forgiveness, reconciliation, the return to the family of God.
  • Intervention of H. Exc. Mons. Boniface LELE, Archbishop of Mombasa (KENYA) (9 October 2009) Holy See Press Office

• We should be witnesses to the universal love of God. After all, people of every cultural and religious position are made in God's image.
  • “We should be witnesses to the universal love of God,” says Archbishop of Mombasa in a conference on dialogue between Christians and Muslims (3 November 2009) Fides News Agency