Erisa Kabiri Masaba, MBE was an

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bishop in

Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...

. Masaba was

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in 1933 and priest in 1934. He served in the Diocese of the Upper Nile. He was a lecturer at

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from 1940 to 1943; and a chaplain to the

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from 1943 to 1948. He was

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Mbale Mbale is a city in the Eastern Region of Uganda. It is the main municipal, administrative, and commercial center of Mbale District and the surrounding sub-region. Location Mbale is approximately northeast of Kampala, Uganda's capital city, on ...

from 1953 to 1961 and

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from 1964 to 1975 (he was also dean).

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1975/6 p646London;

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; 1975

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