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Adrian Kivumbi Ddungu
Adrian Kivumbi Ddungu (15 July 1923 – 30 December 2009) was a Ugandan Catholic priest who served as the second bishop of the Diocese of Masaka, in Uganda, from 11 November 1961 until 10 January 1998. Background and priesthood He was born on 15 July 1923 to Petero Lugwana and Bulandina Nnakabugo Basanyukira, at Ssango Village, in present-day Rakai District. He attended Nkoni Primary School, located at Nkoni, approximately along the Masaka–Mbarara Road. Between 1939 and 1946, Ddungu studied at Bukalasa Minor Seminary "where he excelled". He was admitted to Katigondo Major Seminary in 1946 but studied there for only 10 months before he left for further studies in Rome, Italy. Ddungu was ordained to the priesthood on 20 December 1952, serving as a priest of Masaka, until 11 November 1961. As bishop He was appointed bishop by Pope John XXIII on 11 November 1961, and was consecrated as Bishop of Masaka on 18 March 1962, by Archbishop Joseph Nakabaale Kiwánuka†, Archbishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Masaka
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Masaka ( la, Masakaën(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Masaka in the Ecclesiastical province of Kampala in Uganda. History * May 25, 1939: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Masaka from the Apostolic Vicariate of Uganda * March 25, 1953: Promoted as Diocese of Masaka Bishops * Vicar Apostolic of Masaka (Roman rite) ** Bishop Joseph Kiwánuka, M. Afr. R.I.P. (1939.05.25 – 1953.03.25 ''see below'') * Bishops of Masaka (Roman rite) ** Bishop Joseph Kiwánuka, M. Afr. R.I.P. (''see above'' 1953.03.25 – 1960.12.20), appointed Archbishop of Rubaga ** Bishop Adrian Kivumbi Ddungu R.I.P. (1961.11.11 – 1998.01.10) ** Bishop John Baptist Kaggwa R.I.P. (1998.01.10 - 2019.04.16) ** Bishop Serverus Jjumba (Episcopal ordination on 6 July 2019) Former appointments: Bukalasa Seminary, Diocesan Treasury, Vicar General and finally elected Bishop of Masaka Diocese and pronounced publicly by the Holy See on 16 April 2019 at 2pm (EAT). Edited b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 1963. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was one of thirteen children born to Marianna Mazzola and Giovanni Battista Roncalli in a family of sharecroppers who lived in Sotto il Monte, a village in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. He was ordained to the priesthood on 10 August 1904 and served in a number of posts, as nuncio in France and a delegate to Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. In a consistory on 12 January 1953 Pope Pius XII made Roncalli a cardinal as the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca in addition to naming him as the Patriarch of Venice. Roncalli was unexpectedly elected pope on 28 October 1958 at age 76 after 11 ballots. Pope John XXIII surprised those who expected him to be a caretaker pope by calling the historic Second Vatican Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Rakai District
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 Births
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Daily Monitor
The ''Daily Monitor'' is a Ugandan independent daily newspaper. Its name is shared by the ''Saturday Monitor'' and ''Sunday Monitor'', which are also published by Monitor Publications Limited. ''Daily Monitor'' averaged a daily circulation of 24,230 newspapers in September 2011. By the fourth quarter of 2019, that figure had dropped to 16,169 copies daily. Location The headquarters of the ''Daily Monitor'' and the Daily Monitor Publications, as well as the printing press of the newspaper, are located at 29-35 8th Street (Namuwongo Road) in the Industrial Area of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. Overview The newspaper was established in 1992 as ''The Monitor'', and relaunched as the ''Daily Monitor'' in June 2005. The paper asserts that its private ownership guarantees the independence of its editors and journalists. The newspaper headquarters are housed in the same building that houses the other investments owned by Monitor Publications Limited, including ''Daily Monit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kampala
Kampala (, ) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,000 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Rubaga Division. Kampala's metropolitan area consists of the city proper and the neighboring Wakiso District, Mukono District, Mpigi District, Buikwe District and Luweero District. It has a rapidly growing population that is estimated at 6,709,900 people in 2019 by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics in an area of . In 2015, this metropolitan area generated an estimated nominal GDP of $13.80221 billion (constant US dollars of 2011) according to Xuantong Wang et al., which was more than half of Uganda's GDP for that year, indicating the importance of Kampala to Uganda's economy. Kampala is reported to be among the fastest-growing cities in Africa, with an annual population growth rate of 4.03 percent, by City Mayors. Mercer (a New York- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nsambya Hospital
St. Francis Hospital Nsambya, commonly known as Nsambya Hospital, is a hospital in Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country. Location Nsambya Hospital is located 2.7Km from Kampala Central Business District off Ggaba Road along Hanlon and Kevina Roads on Nsambya Hill in Makindye Division, one of the five administrative divisions of the city, under the Kampala Capital City Authority. access-date=4 November 2020 The coordinates of Nsambya Hospital are:0°18'06.0"N, 32°35'10.0"E (Latitude:0.301667; Longitude:32.586112). History History of Nsambya Hospital St. Francis Hospital started as a dispensary in 1903 by Mother Mary Kevin Kearney, it became a hospital in 1906. For the first two decades it depended on part time doctors until 1922 when it got its first Resident Dr. Evelyn Connolly a lay volunteer who later joined the congregation of the Franciscan Sisters under the name Sister Assumpta. Sr. Assumpta died at Nsambya Hospital in 1974 and was instrum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Joseph McCauley
Vincent ( la, Vincentius) is a male given name derived from the Roman name Vincentius, which is derived from the Latin word (''to conquer''). People with the given name Artists *Vincent Apap (1909–2003), Maltese sculptor *Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter * Vincent Munier (born 1976), French wildlife photographer Saints *Vincent of Saragossa (died 304), deacon and martyr, patron saint of Lisbon and Valencia *Vincent, Orontius, and Victor (died 305), martyrs who evangelized in the Pyrenees * Vincent of Digne (died 379), French bishop of Digne *Vincent of Lérins (died 445), Church father, Gallic author of early Christian writings *Vincent Madelgarius (died 677), Benedictine monk who established two monasteries in France *Vincent Ferrer (1350–1419), Valencian Dominican missionary and logician *Vincent de Paul (1581–1660), Catholic priest who served the poor *Vicente Liem de la Paz (Vincent Liem the Nguyen, 1732–1773), Vincent Duong, Vin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Billington
Vincent Billington, MHM (14 May 1904 - 6 October 1976), was an English Roman Catholic priest who served as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jinja, in Uganda, from 13 May 1948 until 3 May 1965. Background and priesthood Billington was born on 14 May 1904, in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford, in the United Kingdom. He was ordained priest on 20 July 1930, taking the vows of the Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill (Mill Hill Fathers). He served in that capacity until 13 May 1948. As bishop He was appointed bishop on 13 May 1948 by Pope Pius XII and was consecrated as Vicar Apostolic of Kampala, Uganda and Titular Bishop of Avissa on 26 July 1948 by Archbishop William Godfrey†, Titular Archbishop of Cius, assisted by Bishop Thomas Edward Flynn†, Bishop of Lancaster, England, and Bishop Frederick Hall†, Titular Bishop of Alba Maritima. In 1953, when the Vicariate Apostolic of Kampala was elevated to the Diocese of K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masaka–Mbarara Road
The Masaka–Mbarara Road is a road in the Central and Western Regions of Uganda, connecting the cities of Masaka in Masaka District, Central Region and Mbarara in Mbarara District, Western Region. Location The road starts at Masaka and goes through Lyantonde, and ends in Mbarara, a distance of about . The road improvements involved road extensions making the contract road length . The coordinates of the road west of the town of Lyantonde are 0°26'00.0"S, 31°05'40.0"E (Latitude:-0.433343; Longitude:31.094438). Overview Before 2008, the road had a bitumen surface in poor state. In 2008, the government of Uganda, using funds borrowed from the European Union, began upgrading the road to grade II bitumen surface with shoulders, culverts, and drainage channels. The work was contracted to Reynolds Construction Company of Nigeria, at a cost of Sh230 billion (approx.€79 or US$104 million at that time). See also * List of roads in Uganda The following is a list of the nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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