The Anglican dioceses of Buganda are the Anglican presence in the
Central Region, Uganda
The Buganda region is one of the four regions in the country of Uganda. As of Uganda's 2014 census, the region's population was . It is coterminous with the Kingdom of Buganda, one of the ancient African monarchies that are constitutionally re ...
(equivalent to the old Buganda kingdom); they are part of the
Church of Uganda
The Church of Uganda is a member province of the Anglican Communion. Currently there are 37 dioceses which make up the Church of Uganda, each headed by a bishop.
Each diocese is divided into archdeaconries, each headed by a senior priest known ...
The first Anglican church structure in what is now Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania was the Diocese of Eastern Equatorial Africa, which was erected in June 1884. The first bishop was
James Hannington
James Hannington (3 September 1847 – 29 October 1885) was an English Anglican missionary and martyr. He was the first Anglican bishop of East Africa.
Early life
Hannington was born on 3 September 1847 at Hurstpierpoint in Sussex, England, ...
, who made the diocesan headquarters at
Mombassa
Mombasa ( ; ) is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It was the first capital of the British East Africa, before Nairobi was elevated to capital city status. It now serves as the capital of Mombasa County. The town is ...
, but he was assassinated (martyred) on 8 February 1886. The third Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Alfred Tucker, resolved to divide the diocese: he stayed on Bishop of Uganda, while Kenya and part of northern Tanganyika became the Diocese of Mombasa; the division was effected in 1898.
From then until 1926 — when the
Diocese of Upper Nile
The Anglican dioceses of Eastern Uganda are the Anglican presence in (roughly) the Eastern Region, Uganda; they are part of the Church of Uganda. The remaining dioceses of the Church are in the areas of Buganda, of Northern Uganda, of Ankole an ...
was dividing from it — the Diocese of Uganda included all
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The sou ...
, Rwanda and Burundi, in what was then the country of
Zaire
Zaire (, ), officially the Republic of Zaire (french: République du Zaïre, link=no, ), was a Congolese state from 1971 to 1997 in Central Africa that was previously and is now again known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zaire was, ...
. On 1 July 1960, in preparation for the formation of an independent church province, the diocese was split in five: one of the smaller new dioceses retained the same bishop and became the Diocese of Namirembe (so her bishop became Bishop of Namirembe). After the division, the diocese's territory was East Buganda and Busoga.
Brown was elected to become the first archbishop of the new province and took up the post in 1961, when the eight dioceses were erected into the
Church of the Province of Uganda and Ruanda-Urundi
The Church of Uganda is a member province of the Anglican Communion. Currently there are 37 dioceses which make up the Church of Uganda, each headed by a bishop.
Each diocese is divided into archdeaconries, each headed by a senior priest known ...
. The arrangement whereby the Archbishop was elected ended in 1977, when the Bishop of Kampala became Archbishop ''ex officio''.
Since 1890, throughout its many changes, the diocese's mother church has been St Paul's Cathedral, on
Namirembe
Namirembe is a hill in Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. It is also a common name given to girls in several Baganda clans. Namirembe comes from the Luganda word "mirembe" meaning ''peace''. Namirembe loosely translates into ''Full of ...
hill in
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 Ruba ...
. The current building is the fifth
Namirembe Cathedral
Saint Paul's Cathedral Namirembe, commonly referred to as Namirembe Cathedral, is the oldest cathedral in Uganda. It serves as the provincial cathedral of the Anglican Church of Uganda and the diocesan cathedral for Namirembe Diocese, the first d ...
on the same site.
Bishops of Eastern Equatorial Africa
*1884–1885:
James Hannington
James Hannington (3 September 1847 – 29 October 1885) was an English Anglican missionary and martyr. He was the first Anglican bishop of East Africa.
Early life
Hannington was born on 3 September 1847 at Hurstpierpoint in Sussex, England, ...
*''1899''–1908: Alfred Tucker
*1912–1934: John Willis
*1934–1953:
Cyril Stuart
Simon Cyril Edgar Stuart (27 November 1892 – 23 August 1982) was Bishop of Uganda from 1932 to 1952 before returning to England to be Assistant Bishop of Worcester.
Early life
Born on 27 November 1892, Stuart was educated at Repton School, the ...
**19471960 (ret.):
Aberi Balya
Aberi Kakyomya Balya was an Anglican Assistant Bishop of Uganda in the mid 20th century.
He was educated at Uganda Christian University, Bishop Tucker College and ordained in 1922. He was appointed a Canon (priest), Canon in 1935; and consecrate ...
, assistant bishop"The Anglican Episcopate: Dioceses in Africa" in
Clifford P. Morehouse Clifford Phelps Morehouse (April 18, 1904 – February 17, 1977) was a prominent lay Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopalian journalist and publisher.
In 1932, Morehouse succeeded his father, Frederic Cook Morehouse, as editor of ''The ...
(ed.) ''The Episcopal Church Annual, 1957'' (New York: Morehouse-Gorham) p. 382 for Tooro, Bunyoro, Ankole and Kigezi
**1951–1960: Percy James "Jim" Brazier, assistant bishop for Ruanda-Urundi (became first diocesan
Bishop of Ruanda-Urundi
A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.
In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
; 3 August 190330 November 1989; deaconed 12 June 1927 & priested 3 June 1928 by
Cyril Garbett
Cyril Forster Garbett (6 February 1875 – 31 December 1955) was an Anglican bishop and author. He was successively the Bishop of Southwark, the Bishop of Winchester and the Archbishop of York from 1942 to 1955.
Early life
Garbett was born in ...
Geoffrey Fisher
Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, (5 May 1887 – 15 September 1972) was an English Anglican priest, and 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, serving from 1945 to 1961.
From a long line of parish priests, Fisher was educated at Marlb ...
(
Canterbury
Canterbury (, ) is a cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the primate of ...
) at
Westminster
Westminster is an area of Central London, part of the wider City of Westminster.
The area, which extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street, has many visitor attractions and historic landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, B ...
)
**June 19521960: Festo Lutaya, assistant bishop (became first diocesan of West Buganda)
*1953–''1960'' Leslie Brown
**5 May 19571960: Kosiya Shalita, assistant bishop
**1 May''1 July 1960'':
Erica Sabiti
Erica Sabiti was Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-Zaire from 1966 to 1974.
Kagwisagye Sabiti was born in 1907 in Nkore (later known as Ankole) in today's South-Western Uganda. He was educated at King's College Budo and Makerere Col ...
, assistant bishop
In 1957, preparing for the split into five dioceses, Brown oversaw the creation of five "areas", to be overseen by himself and his four suffragans:
*Ruanda-Urundi had already been under Brazier's oversight since 1951
*April/May 1957 onwards: Lutaya had the West Buganda area
*5 May 1957 onwards: Shalita, for Ankole-Kigezi (became first diocesan Bishop of Ankole-Kigezi)
*9 May 1957 onwards: Brown took direct oversight of the ''East Buganda and Busoga area''
*16 May 1957before 1 May 1960: Balya was assistant bishop for Toro-Bunyoro until his retirement
*1 May 1960 onwards: Sabiti succeeded Balya over Toro-Bunyoro-Mboga (became first bishop diocesan of
Rwenzori
The Ruwenzori, also spelled Rwenzori and Rwenjura, are a range of mountains in eastern equatorial Africa, located on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The highest peak of the Ruwenzori reaches , and the range ...
)
On the split in 1960, the five men became diocesan bishops of their areas.
Bishops of Namirembe
*''1960''21 November 1965 (ret.): Leslie Brown, Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi from 1961
*21 November 19651985:
Dunstan Nsubuga
Dunstan Kasi Nsubuga was an Anglican Bishop in Uganda. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975/6 p861: London; OUP; 1976 p724
Nsubuga was educated at Uganda Christian University. He was ordained deacon in 1944 and priest in 1945. He served the Di ...
, first indigenous bishop (assistant since 1964)
*1985–1994: Misaeri Kauma (assistant bishop 1975–1985)Dictionary of African Christian Biography — Kauma, Misaeri Kitemaggwa /ref>
*1994–2009: Samuel Ssekkadde
*2009–present: Kityo Luwalira (consecrated and installed 31 May 2009)
Diocese of West Buganda
One of the five dioceses erected in 1960 from the Uganda diocese was that of West Buganda. Lutaya (an assistant bishop) was made the first Bishop of West Buganda; in 1964, he moved the diocesan headquarters from
Masaka
Masaka is a city in the Buganda Region of Uganda, west of Lake Victoria. The city is the headquarters of Masaka District.
Location
Masaka is approximately to the south-west of Kampala on the highway to Mbarara. The city is close to the Equato ...
to his hometown
Mityana
Mityana, is a town in the Central Region of Uganda. It is the main municipal, administrative, and commercial center of Mityana District, and the district headquarters are located there.
Location
Mityana is approximately , by road, west of Kampa ...
, which caused trouble in Masaka. The controversy rolled on and delayed Tomusange's enthronement in September 1966.
Her cathedral has been St Paul's Cathedral, Kako (in Masaka) since before 1974.
Stephen Tomusange Stephen Salonga Tomusange was an Anglican bishop who served in Uganda during the second half of the 20th century.
Russell was educated at King's College Budo and Buwalasi Theological College. He was ordained deacon in 1936 and priest in 1938. He s ...
(previously an assistant
bishop on the Upper Nile
The Anglican dioceses of Eastern Uganda are the Anglican presence in (roughly) the Eastern Region, Uganda; they are part of the Church of Uganda. The remaining dioceses of the Church are in the areas of Buganda, of Northern Uganda, of Ankole an ...
Godfrey Makumbi
Godfrey Makumbi (15 December 1962 – 31 May 2015) was an Anglican bishop who served in Uganda: he was Bishop of West Buganda from 2011 until his death in May 2015.
Makumbi was born in Nansana and educated at Makerere University and the Universit ...
Founded in 1972 from Namirembe diocese, the diocesan bishop of Kampala has always been Archbishop of Uganda. (They are ''never'' called Archbishop of Kampala; there is a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kampala.) Because of the archbishop's national duties, there have often been assistant bishops in the diocese; the cathedral is All Saints on
Nakasero
Nakasero is a hill and neighborhood in the centre of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda. Nakasero is important to Uganda's economy and politics, as it is home to Kampala's central business district and several government offices, ...
hill, central
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 Ruba ...
.
Assistant Bishops of Kampala
Assistant bishops have included:
*1983–1997:
Lucas Gonahasa
Alupakusadi Lucas Gonahasa was an Anglican bishop who served in Uganda. he was the assistant bishop of Bukedi from 1978 to 1983; and assistant bishop of Kampala from 1983 to 1997
Gonahasa was educated at Buwalasi Theological College. He serve ...
(previously Assistant Bishop of Bukedi)
*2004 (ret.):Anglican Communion News Service — Provincial Secretary and CMS official named new bishops in Uganda /ref> Eliphaz Maari
*30 January 2005June 2012 (ret.): Zac Niringiye
*10 December 2006?: David Sebuhinja, assistant for the Provincial SecretariatChurch of Uganda — Archbishop's Charge to 19th Provincial Assembly, 26–29 August 2008 (Accessed 18 February 2020)
*2 September 2007?: John Guernsey, bishop for COU congregations in the USA
*2014–present: Hannington Mutebi
Diocese of Mityana
Erected from West Buganda and inaugurated on 22 May 1977, the Diocese of Mityana has its bishop's seat at St Andrew's Cathedral, Namukozi.
Bishops of Mityana
*19771989: Yokana Mukasa
*22 January 1989New Vision — Mityana gets new Bishop /ref>?: Wilson Mutebi
*January 20022008: Dunstan Bukenya
*26 October 20082020: Stephen KaziimbaMityana Diocese — The Bishop /ref> (became Archbishop of Uganda and Bishop of Kampala)
*2 February 2020present: James Bukomeko
Diocese of Mukono
Mukono diocese was divided from Namirembe diocese in 1983, when Mpalanyi-Nkoyoyo, an assistant bishop of Namirembe, was elected the new diocese's first bishop. The mother church is SS Andrew & Philip Cathedral, Mukono.
Bishops of Mukono
*19831995: Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo (previously assistant bishop of Namirembe; became Archbishop of Uganda)
*November 1995June 2002 (ret.):New Vision — Mukono Gets New Bishop /ref> Michael Senyimba
*30 June 2002September 2010 (ret.): Paul Luzinda
*19 September 2010present:
James Ssebaggala
James Ssebaggala is an Anglican bishop who serves in Uganda: he has been the fourth and current Bishop of Mukono since 2010.
A native of Mukono District he trained as an architect in Entebbe. He studied for the priesthood at Uganda Christian U ...
Diocese of Luweero
Founded from the Diocese of Namirembe in 1991,Uganda Radio Network — Bishop Bugimbi Burial For Monday /ref> the cathedral is St Mark's, Luweero.
Bishops of Luweero
*8 December 19911996:
Mesusera Bugimbi
Mesusera Bugimbi was an Anglican bishop who served in Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to ...
Eridard Nsubuga
Eridard Kironde Nsubuga is an Anglican bishop who serves in Uganda: he has been Bishop of Luweero since 2015.Kasaka, St John's.
Bishops of Central Buganda
*1995–2001: George SinabulyaDiocese of Central Buganda — Historical Background /ref>
*2001–2016: Jackson Matovu
*29 January 2017present:
Micheal Lubowa Micheal Lubowa is an Anglican bishop who serves in Uganda: he has been Bishop of Central Buganda since consecration on 29 January 2017.
Lubowa is a son of George Sinabulya, the inaugural Bishop of Central Buganda. He was educated at Uganda Chris ...
Anglican dioceses of Ankole and Kigezi
The Anglican dioceses of Ankole and Kigezi are the Anglican presence in (roughly) the ancient Ankole kingdom and the old Kigezi District; they are part of the Church of Uganda. The remaining dioceses of the church are in the areas of Buganda, o ...
*
Anglican dioceses of Eastern Uganda
The Anglican dioceses of Eastern Uganda are the Anglican presence in (roughly) the Eastern Region, Uganda; they are part of the Church of Uganda. The remaining dioceses of the Church are in the areas of Buganda, of Northern Uganda, of Ankole ...
*
Anglican dioceses of Northern Uganda
The Anglican dioceses of Northern Uganda are the Anglican presence in (roughly) the Northern Region, Uganda; they are part of the Church of Uganda. The remaining dioceses of the Church are in the areas of Buganda, of Eastern Uganda, of Ankole a ...
*
Anglican dioceses of Rwenzori
The Anglican dioceses of Rwenzori are the Anglican presence in (roughly) the areas near the Rwenzori mountains; they are part of the Church of Uganda. The remaining dioceses of the Church are in the areas of Buganda, of Eastern Uganda, of North ...
*
List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Uganda {{short description, None
The Roman Catholic Church in Uganda is composed of 4 ecclesiastical provinces and 15 suffragan dioceses.
List of dioceses Episcopal Conference of Uganda Ecclesiastical Province of Gulu
* Archdiocese of Gulu
** Diocese of ...