Mbarara, 18 July, 2023 / 8:55 pm (ACI Africa).
Archbishop Paul Kamuza Bakyenga, the first Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mbarara in Uganda, who has passed on at the age of 79 is being mourned as a humble servant and a “true advocate for unity”.
The Local Ordinary of the Ugandan Metropolitan See, Archbishop Lambert Bainomugisha, announced “with deep sorrow” the death of his predecessor, which he said occurred on Tuesday, July 18 at Nsambya Hospital in the East African nation.
In the July 18 statement announcing the death, Archbishop Bainomugisha calls on the people of God to “pray for the peaceful repose of his soul.”
The late Ugandan Catholic Archbishop started his Episcopal Ministry on 24 June 1989 as the Coadjutor Bishop of Mbarara Diocese.
He became the first Archbishop of the Ugandan Archdiocese on 2 January 1999 when Pope John Paul II elevated Mbarara Diocese to an Archdiocese.