Apolo Kivebulaya
Apolo Kivebulaya (c. 1864 - 30 May 1933) was a Ugandan Anglican priest and evangelist. He is sometimes referred to as the "apostle to the pygmies" for his work among the Bambuti people of the Ituri forest in eastern Congo. He is commemorated in the Anglican Calendar of Saints on 30 May.
He was born, along with his twin brother, in 1864 in Kiwanda, Uganda. His parents originally named him Waswa Munubi. He took the name Apolo at his baptism in 1895 after the Apollo of the Bible. He was given the name "Kivebulaya," meaning "from Europe," because he always wore a suit under his cassock.[1]
References
- ^ See article by Rev. Yossa Way on Dictionary of African Christian Biography http://www.dacb.org/stories/demrepcongo/kivebulaya_apolo.html.
Further reading
- Luck, Anne (1963), African Saint: The Story of Apolo Kivebulaya, London: SCM Press
- Manarin, L. Timothy, "Apolo Kivebulaya", Dictionary of African Christian Biography, http://www.dacb.org/stories/demrepcongo/kivebulaya2_apolo.html
- Quinn, Frederick, "Apolo Kivebulaya", Dictionary of African Christian Biography, http://www.dacb.org/stories/demrepcongo/kivebulaya3_apollo.html
- Roome, William J. W., Apolo: The Apostle to the Pygmies, London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, http://anglicanhistory.org/africa/roome_apolo.html
- Taylor, John V., "Kivebulaya (Waswa), Apolo", Dictionary of African Christian Biography, http://www.dacb.org/stories/demrepcongo/kivebulaya4_apolo.html
- Way, Yossa, "Apolo Kivebulaya", Dictionary of African Christian Biography, http://www.dacb.org/stories/demrepcongo/kivebulaya_apolo.html
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