The Archdiocese of Kampala is the Metropolitan See for the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical province of Kampala in Uganda .
6-640: Saint Mary's Cathedral Rubaga , commonly referred to as Rubaga Cathedral , is the parent cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala , the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in Uganda . It is the home church of Archbishop of Kampala . The Cathedral is located on Lubaga Hill , in Lubaga Division , in the western part of the city of Kampala , the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that East African country. Lubaga
12-413: Is located approximately 3 kilometres (1.9 mi), by road, west of the central business district of Kampala. The coordinates of Rubaga Cathedral are:0°18'09.0"N, 32°33'08.0"E (Latitude:0.302500; Longitude:32.552222). Kabaka Mutesa I Mukaabya Walugembe , the 30th Kabaka of Buganda , who reigned from 1856 until 1884, once maintained a palace on Lubaga Hill . When fire destroyed the palace, he abandoned
18-749: The African Great Lakes Area have words starting with "R".) Later, the missionaries built a hospital and a nursing school on the hill. Today, Lubaga remains the seat of the headquarters of the Catholic Church in Uganda. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala. The remains of the first African Catholic bishop in Uganda, Bishop Joseph Nakabaale Kiwanuka and those of the first African Catholic Cardinal, Cardinal Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga are kept in
24-503: The hill and relocated to Mengo Hill . In 1889, his son Mwanga II of Buganda , donated that land to the French Catholic missionaries ( White Fathers ) who were setting up the nascent Catholic church in the country, at that time. In 1914 the missionaries began constructing a modern cathedral at Lubaga (Rubaga). Construction was completed in 1925 and St. Mary's Cathedral Rubaga was consecrated on 31 December 1925. The remains of
30-503: The late Archbishop Joseph Kiwanka (June 25, 1899 — February 22, 1966), the first African Catholic Bishop and the first African Archbishop of Kampala Diocese, are housed inside the cathedral. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala The present Kampala Archdiocese is the result of territorial changes: When the Catholic White Fathers came to Lubaga in 1879, they were allocated land near Lubaga Hill . In 1889,
36-526: The reigning monarch Mwanga II of Buganda , donated them land on Lubaga Hill itself where they built Saint Mary's Cathedral Rubaga , beginning in 1914 until 1925, with the assistance of monetary contributions from Roman Catholic congregations abroad. The early missionaries had problems pronouncing the word Lubaga . They instead pronounced it with an "r" as in Rubaga. In Luganda, there is no word that starts with an "R". (Other Bantu languages from western Uganda and
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