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Saint Mary's Cathedral Lubaga, commonly referred to as Lubaga Cathedral, is the parent cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala, the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in
Lubaga Cathedral, The Seat of the Catholic Church In Uganda
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Saint Mary's Cathedral Lubaga, commonly referred to as Lubaga Cathedral, is the parent cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala, the oldest Roman Catholic diocese 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 ...
. It is the home church of Archbishop
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of Kampala
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.
Location
The Cathedral is located on Lubaga Hill, inLubaga Division
Rubaga Division, also Lubaga Division, is one of the divisions that makes up the city of Kampala, Uganda. The division takes its name from Rubaga, where the division headquarters are located.
Location
Rubaga Division lies in the western part of ...
, in the western part of the city of Kampala
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, the capital
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of Uganda
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and the largest city in that East Africa
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n country. Lubaga is located approximately , by road, west of the central business district
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of Kampala. The coordinates of Lubaga Cathedral are:0°18'09.0"N, 32°33'08.0"E (Latitude:0.302500; Longitude:32.552222).
Overview
Kabaka Mutesa I Mukaabya Walugembe, the 30thKabaka of Buganda
Kabaka is the title of the monarch, king of the Buganda, Kingdom of Buganda.Stanley, H.M., 1899, Through the Dark Continent, London: G. Newnes, According to the traditions of the Baganda, they are ruled by two kings, one spiritual and the othe ...
, who reigned from 1856 until 1884, once maintained a palace on Lubaga Hill. When fire destroyed the palace, he abandoned the hill and relocated to Mengo Hill. In 1889, his son Mwanga II of Buganda
Danieri Basammula-Ekkere Mwanga II Mukasa (3 June 1868 – 8 May 1903)D. A. Low''Fabrication of Empire: The British and the Uganda Kingdoms, 1890-1902'' Cambridge University Press, 2009, p. 210, note 196. was the 31st Kabaka of Buganda, Kabaka of ...
, donated that land to the French Catholic missionaries (White Fathers
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) who were setting up the nascent Catholic church
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in the country, at that time. In 1914 the missionaries began constructing a modern cathedral at Lubaga (Lubaga). Construction was completed in 1925 and St. Mary's Cathedral Lubaga was consecrated on 31 December 1925.
Other considerations
The remains of 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.See also
References
External links
Lubaga Cathedral, The Seat of the Catholic Church In Uganda
{{Authority control Buildings and structures in Kampala Roman Catholic cathedrals in Uganda Lubaga Division Roman Catholic churches completed in 1925 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Uganda