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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 .
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.
Alfred Robert Tucker was made the third bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1890 and in 1899, the Diocese of Uganda was created and Tucker became the first Bishop of Uganda. [5] In 1893 the first Ugandans were ordained and Buganda was established as a centre for evangelisation in the Great Lakes Area.
Erected from the Diocese of Uganda in 1926. In 1954, four archdeaconries were created: West Nile; Lango and Acholi; Teso and Karamoja; and Mbale; there was an Archdeacon of Elgon until that point. [1] By 1953, St Phillip the Evangelist, Ngora was a pro-cathedral of the diocese; [2] it later became a
The Diocese of Rwenzori was erected when the Diocese of Uganda split in five in 1960; Erica Sabiti became its first diocesan bishop, having served since earlier that year as suffragan bishop (in the Uganda diocese) for the Toro-Bunyoro-Mboga area.
Charles Collins Andaku (born 22 November 1965) is an Anglican bishop in Uganda: [1] he has been the Bishop of Madi and West Nile since 2017. [ 2 ] Early life and education
Johnson Twinomujuni [1] is an Anglican bishop in Uganda: [2] since 2017 he has served as the Bishop of West Ankole. [3] Twinomujuni was born on. 11th August 1968 in Muko, Mbarara District. He was educated at the African Bible College in Malawi; the Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, USA; and Uganda Christian University. He ...