Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala

Catholic Cathedral of Kampala.

The Archdiocese of Kampala is the Metropolitan See for the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical province of Kampala in Uganda.

History

The present Kampala Archdiocese is the result of territorial changes:

Statistics

Lubaga

When the Catholic White Fathers came calling in 1879, they were allocated land near Lubaga Hill. In 1889, the reigning monarch, Manga II of Buganda, donated them land on Lubaga Hill itself where they built Saint Mary's Cathedral Rubaga, beginning in 1914 until 1925, with the assistance of monetary contributions from Roman Catholic congregations abroad. The early missionaries had problems pronouncing the word Lubaga. They instead pronounced it with an "r" as in Rubaga. In Luganda, there is no word that starts with an "R". (Other Bantu languages from western Uganda and the African Great Lakes Area have words starting with "R".)

Later, the missionaries built a hospital and a nursing school on the hill. Today, Lubaga remains the seat of the headquarters of the Catholic Church in Uganda. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala.

The remains of the first African Catholic bishop in Uganda, Bishop Joseph Nakabaale Kiwanuka and those of the first African Catholic Cardinal, Cardinal Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga are kept in the Catholic Mission on the hill.

Church landmarks

Special churches

The seat of the Archbishop is Saint Mary’s Cathedral in Lubaga Division, in western Kampala.[1] There is also a Minor Basilica, the Basilica of the Uganda Martyrs at Namugongo in Wakiso District.[2] Other important churches in the Archdiocese include (a) Lady of Africa Church in Mbuya and the Former Cathedral of Saint Peter at Nsambya[3] and Munyonyo Martyrs Shrine

Leadership

Vicars Apostolic of Northern Victoria Nyanza

Vicars Apostolic of Uganda

Metropolitan Archbishops of Rubaga

Metropolitan Archbishops of Kampala

Suffragan dioceses

See also

References

  1. UTG, . "Profile of Rubaga Hill". Uganda Travel Guide (UTG). Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  2. UMS, . "Uganda Martyrs' Shrine, Namugongo". UgandaMartyrsShrine.org.ug. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  3. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kampala: Type - Former Cathedral of Saint Peter: Location - Nsambya". GCatholic.org. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  4. "Archbishop Henri Streicher, M. Africa † (Deceased)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  5. Nsambu, Hillary (20 August 2006). "Archbishop Lwanga To Be Installed On September 30 2006". New Vision. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
Wikisource has the text of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Victoria Nyanza.

External links

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