Pastor Sageus /Keib of Immanuel Parish at Swakopmund is now the new bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia ( ELRCN).
He succeeds retiring bishop Ernst //Gamxamub.
The church’s ongoing high synod at Mariental, which kicked-off on Sunday and ends today, yesterday announced /Keib garnered the highest votes of 5316 .
The congregants casted 8901 votes during the election for a new bishop held in March this year.
Outgoing deputy bishop Paul Hatani , who served for the past consecutive years as the bishop’s deputy, scored the second highest votes of 1839.
The third bishop candidate Pastor Abraham //Kheibeb scored 1702 votes. However, he becomes the /Keib’s deputy.
Kisting, although he is the runner up in the three horse race , is prohibited by the church constitution to serve as deputy bishop for the third consecutive year.The church constitution only allows a deputy bishop to serve for two consecutive terms.
The ballots were kept in safe custody since the May election, and vote counting only started only Tuesday afternoon.
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