Archdiocese of Kampala


The Archdiocese of Kampala is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Uganda. It is a metropolitan see of its ecclesiastical province, which includes four suffragan dioceses.
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History

The present Kampala Archdiocese is the result of territorial changes:
  • Victoria Nyanza Vicariate : It was established by the Holy See in 1883 and was entrusted to the Missionaries of Africa commonly known as the White Fathers. Rubaga became the seat of the Bishop.
  • Upper Nile Vicariate : On 13 July 1894 the Holy See erected the Upper Nile Vicariate dividing it from Victoria Nyanza Vicariate and entrusted it to the Mill Hill Missionaries. Nsambya became the seat of the Bishop. The name of Vicariate Nyanza Vicariate was also changed to Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Victoria Nyanza.
  • Vicariate of Uganda : After the erection of vicariates in territories beyond the Nile on the southern side, the name of Northern Victoria Nyanza Vicariate became the Vicariate of Uganda on 15 January 1915.
  • Vicariate of Kampala: On 10 June 1948 the name of Upper Nile Vicariate was changed to the Vicariate of Kampala which later became the diocese of Kampala in 1953.
  • Archdiocese of Rubaga : The Catholic hierarchy in Uganda was established on 25 March 1953. The former Vicariates of Uganda became the dioceses of Uganda. Rubaga became the Archdiocese with 5 suffragan dioceses namely: Gulu, Masaka, Kampala, Mbarara and Tororo
  • Archdiocese of Kampala : On 5 August 1966 the Holy See joined together what was part the Diocese of Kampala and the Archdiocese of Rubaga and created the Archdiocese of Kampala. It was covering most parts of Central Uganda. Since then, three other new dioceses have been carved out of it: Kiyinda-Mityana, Kasana-Luweero and Lugazi.

Statistics

  • Archbishop: Rt. Rev. Paul Ssemogerere
  • Size: 3.644.75 square km
  • Total Population: 3,592,053
  • Catholic Population: 1,505,053
  • Parishes: 67
  • Sub-stations : 389
  • Number of Priests: 324
  • Diocesan Priests: 261
  • Priests belonging to Religious Institutes: 63
  • Professed non-Priest Religious: 186
  • Professed Women Religious: 410
  • Catechists: 428
  • Number of Seminarians : 173
  • Catholic Universities: 1
  • Vocational Institutions: 5
  • Catholic-Founded Secondary schools: 45
  • Catholic-Founded Primary Schools: 222
  • Catholic Hospitals: 4
  • Health Centers and Dispensaries: 20

Lubaga

When the Catholic White Fathers came to Lubaga in 1879, they were allocated land near Lubaga Hill. In 1889, the reigning monarch Mwanga 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".
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 indigenous Ugandan 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. There are two Minor Basilica of the Uganda Martyrs, at Namugongo in Wakiso District and Munyonyo Martyrs Shrine. Other important churches in the Archdiocese include Lady of Africa Church in Mbuya and the Former Cathedral of Saint Peter at Nsambya.

Bishops

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Victoria-Nyanza
Vicars Apostolic of Northern Victoria Nyanza
Vicars Apostolic of Uganda
  • Bishop Henri Streicher, M.Afr.: see above 1915–1933
  • Bishop Edouard Michaud, M.Afr.: 1933–1945
  • Bishop Louis Joseph Cabana, M.Afr.: 1947–1953 see below
Metropolitan Archbishops of Lubaga
  • Archbishop Louis Joseph Cabana, M.Afr.: see above 1953–1960
  • Archbishop Joseph Kiwánuka, M.Afr.: 1960–1966
Metropolitan Archbishops of Kampala

Coadjutors

Auxiliary Bishops

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops