Joseph Anthony Zziwa (born 16 February 1956) is a

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 ...

n Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the Bishop of the Diocese of Kiyinda-Mityana. He was appointed Bishop of Kiyinda-Mityana on 23 October 2004.

Background and priesthood

Joseph Zziwa was born on 16 February 1956 at Kasambya Village, in Mubende Parish, in present-day

Mubende District Mubende is a district in the Central Region of Uganda. The town of Mubende is the site of the district headquarters. The district was reduced in size in July 2005 with the creation of the Mityana District and reduced again in 2019 when Kassanda ...

in the Buganda Region of

. This location lies in present-day Kiyinda-Mityana Diocese. He was ordained priest on 16 November 1980 at Kiyinda-Mityana. He served as priest in the diocese until 19 November 2001.

As bishop

He was appointed bishop on 19 November 2001 and consecrated as

auxiliary bishop An auxiliary bishop is a bishop assigned to assist the diocesan bishop in meeting the pastoral and administrative needs of the diocese. Auxiliary bishops can also be titular bishops of sees that no longer exist as territorial jurisdictions. ...

Kiyinda-Mityana Diocese on 16 March 2002, by Bishop Joseph Mukwaya, Bishop of Kiyinda-Mityana, assisted by Cardinal

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, Archbishop of Kampala and Archbishop Christophe Louis Yves Georges Pierre, Titular Archbishop of Gunela, and

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to Uganda at that time. On 23 October 2004, Bishop Zziwa succeeded Bishop Emeritus Joseph Mukwaya, who resigned. Bishop Zziwa is the third Ordinary Bishop of Kiyinda-Mityana. In July 2014, Bishop Zziwa, together with Bishop Sabino Ocan Odoki of the

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, were elected to the Committee of Bishops of the Association of Members of Episcopal Conference of Eastern Africa (AMECEA), whose member countries are Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia Djibouti and Somalia. Bishop Zziwa also serves as the Chairman of the Uganda Episcopal Conference. He was elected to that position by his fellow bishops in Uganda, in November 2018 and reelected in November 2022 for the next four-year non-renewable term.

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As of 22 July 2020. {{DEFAULTSORT:Zziwa, Joseph Anthony 1956 births Living people 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Uganda People from Mubende District Roman Catholic bishops of Kiyinda–Mityana Ugandan Roman Catholic bishops

Background and priesthood

As bishop

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