Nyeri Catholic Archbishop Anthony Muheria has called on the government to conduct a wealth audit of all religious leaders.
This comes against the backdrop of a discussion on the regulation of churches in the country.
This is as police try to unravel suspected cultic teachings that have seen dozens of Kenyans starve to death in Kilifi.
The Archbishop said there must be laws to guide religions and dominations.
"It is important that we audit the wealth of all religious leaders, all of us including myself should be able to declare what I have in my accounts," he said.
"It should be something public for all the Christians who follow my church. They should know how much I have and how much I own. That is the only way the congregation can be defended from the greed of any rogue religious leaders."
He termed the Kilifi cult incident as a deception of the highest order where gullible people use the poor and miserable for their own gains.
"We must be bold, this is not a question of doing a simple sanitization. We’ve seen this is deep, it is evil, and should not be repeated in our country," he said.
Pastor Paul Mackenzie who is at the center of the suspected cultic teachings has since been arrested.
So far some 95 bodies have been recovered from graves in the forest, officials said.
