Timothy Livingstone (Amboko) Wambunya (born 1966) is an Anglican bishop.^[1] He was the Anglican Bishop of Butere in Kenya^[2] until September 2020, when he resigned and left Kenya after recovering from COVID-19.^[3] In 2024, he was announced as the next Bishop of Wolverhampton, an area bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield;^[4] which See he took up on 15 October.^[5]

Timothy Wambunya was born in Kenya. He came to the United Kingdom aged 19, and spent seven years in the navy before training for the priesthood.^[6]

Wambunya gained a BA in theology from Middlesex University in 1996, followed by a Master's in Philosophy from Oxford University and a PhD in Paremiology from the University of Wales.^[7]

He studied at the Simon of Cyrene Theological Institute, then at Oak Hill College in London, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1994.^[1][4]

Wambunya took orders in the Church of England: he was made deacon at Petertide 1997 (28 June) by Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral;^[8] and ordained priest the following Petertide (4 July 1998) by Graham Dow, Bishop of Willesden, at St Martin's Church, Ruislip.^[9] He served his curacy at St John's Church, Southall, and was ordained priest in 1998.^[4] In 2000 he became a team vicar in the Tollington parish, serving at Emmanuel Church, Holloway; and in 2007 was appointed principal of the Church Army's Carlile College in Nairobi, Kenya.^[1][4]

Wambunya was consecrated as the third Bishop of Butere on 6 October 2013,^[10] succeeding Horace Etemesi (1993–2003) and Michael Joshua Sande (2003–2013).^[11][12] As Bishop of Butere he attended and led a seminar at the 2018 Global Anglican Future Conference, but he would later criticise the movement, saying in 2020 "Personally, I think the Gafcon axis has become obsessed with the matter of sexuality."^[13][14]

In 2020 he left Kenya and his episcopal role, and in September was appointed vicar of St Paul's Church in Slough, a 'resource church' in the Church of England Diocese of Oxford;^[15] he also became an honorary assistant bishop of that diocese in 2021.^[16]

In 2024 he was announced as the next Bishop of Wolverhampton, an area bishop in the Diocese of Lichfield.^[4][17] His welcome service was scheduled for 15 October 2024;^[18] he duly took up his See on that date.^[5]

In September 2024, Wambunya was formally rebuked by the Church of England after ordaining Revd Wamare Juma of the Revealed Evangelical Mission, a "non-denominational para-church" not in communion with the Church of England, as a bishop in a service in Germany in April of that year.^[19][20] He apologised, attributing his actions to his "lack of understanding of the polity of the Church within which I am now serving".^[21]

He is married to Gertrude and has three sons.^[6]

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