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Metropolitan see Kampala, Uganda

Archdiocese of Kampala

Kampalaën(sis)

Latin Church

The Archdiocese of Kampala is the metropolitan see of the Catholic Church in central Uganda, tracing to the 1883 Victoria Nyanza Vicariate and elevated to an archdiocese in 1966. Its seat is St. Mary's Cathedral Rubaga and its province includes the suffragan dioceses of Kasana-Luweero, Kiyinda-Mityana, Lugazi and Masaka.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for St. Mary's Cathedral Rubaga, in Kampala, Uganda.

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Established
1883
Catholics
1,950,000
Priests
278
Territory
3 km²

Parishes and churches

71 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
Paul Ssemogerere
Born
30 June 1956
Birthplace
Nkumba

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The cathedral

St. Mary's Cathedral Rubaga stands in Kampala, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

A metropolitan see of its own ecclesiastical province, which takes in four suffragan dioceses, the Archdiocese of Kampala is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Uganda.

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