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Archdiocese of Kampala

Kampalaën(sis)

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.

The see

Rank
Metropolitan see
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
5 August 1966
Latin
Kampalaën(sis)
Annuario code
001001793

The see in figures

Catholics
1,950,000
Population
4,757,721
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
41.0%
Priests
278
Catholics per priest
7,014
Extent
3 km²
Catholics per km²
650,000

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Archbishop
Paul Ssemogerere
Born
30 June 1956
Birthplace
Nkumba

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

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.

The province of Kampala

This see is the metropolitan of its province.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

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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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.