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The Church of Uganda (C/U) is a member province of the Anglican Communion.Currently, there are 37 dioceses that make up the Church of Uganda, each headed by a bishop.. Each diocese is divided into archdeaconries, each headed by a senior priest known as an archdeacon.
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 , who made the diocesan headquarters at Mombasa , but he was assassinated (martyred) on 8 February 1886.
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 , of Eastern Uganda , of Northern Uganda , and of Rwenzori .
The first diocese to be erected in this area was that called simply the Diocese of Northern Uganda, which was split from the Diocese on the Upper Nile in 1961. Today the mother church is St Philip's Cathedral, Gulu .
By 1953, St Phillip the Evangelist, Ngora was a pro-cathedral of the diocese; [2] it later became a full cathedral of successor dioceses. In preparation for the creation of the independent church province , the diocese was split in three parts in 1961: Teso and Karamoja became Soroti diocese; the Northern Province the Diocese of Northern Uganda ...
Diana Nkesiga was one of the first women to be ordained by the Anglican Church of Uganda. After earning her degree in theology, she was denied ordination but was permitted to become a commissioned worker in 1989 and a deacon in 1991. Passed over for the priesthood in 1992, she pushed authorities in both Uganda and then South Africa, where she ...
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 Northern Uganda , and of Ankole and Kigezi .
Sosan Aaron Michael Kyomya is the bishop of the Anglican diocese of Busoga in Uganda. He was previously academic dean at the Nairobi International School of Theology (NIST) in Kenya. In 1995 Kyomya and his wife, Florence, founded Hesed Ministries, Uganda, which aims to help women build confidence through Christian living. [1]