Benoni Y. Ogwal-Abwang was an

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: he was Bishop of Northern Uganda from 1974 to 1989. Ogwal-Abwang was born in 1942. He was educated at the

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and

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. He was

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in 1969. After a

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, he was Assistant Provincial Secretary of the

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until his consecration as bishop.''

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1980-82'' p758 London: Oxford University Press, 1982

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