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Welcome to the official website of the Catholic Church in Uganda. You will find on this website information about different dioceses in Uganda (parishes, religious communities, priests, institutions, etc.), the different commissions, institutions, and departments of the Catholic Secretariat, as well as important links to the Church universal and its organs. You can also read about the recent publications and press releases of the Uganda Episcopal Conference.

 

The Uganda Episcopal Conference is the Assembly of the Catholic Hierarchy in Uganda, constituted with the approval of the Holy See, through which Bishops express their collegial responsibility through collective action, to assure the progress of the Church and coordination of its social and pastoral ministry. It is headed by a Chairman elected every four years. He is assisted by an Executive Board, also chosen every four years, composed of six Chairmen of various Commissions. The Episcopal Conference of Uganda was founded in 1960.


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PROVINCES

  • GULU

    Gulu, like all the territories along the Nile valley, belonged to the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Africa created in 1846, and which had been suspended because of too many deaths of missionaries. The sons and daughters of St. Daniel Comboni who were the first missionaries in Gulu had been there for a while. On 30th January, 1999 His Holiness Pope John Paul II announced the erection of Gulu Diocese to a Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gulu and the Ecclesiastical Province of Gulu consisting of the three suffragan Dioceses of Arua, Lira and Nebbi.

  • KAMPALA

    Welcome to the Archdiocese of Kampala.His Grace Archbishop Paul Ssemogerere was born on 30th June 1956, at Kisubi in the Archdiocese of Kampala. He was ordained a priest on 3rd June 1983 and appointed the second Bishop of Kasana–Luweero Diocese on 4th June, 2008. He was ordained Bishop and installed on 23rd August, 2008 at Kasana-Luweero by Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga. Kampala has Four dioceses Kiyinda-Mityana, Lugazi, Luweero and Masaka diocese

  • MBARARA

    In the year 1900 Bishop Streicher, Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate of North Nyanza, sent two White Father Missionaries (Missionaries of Africa) to South Western Uganda to explore the possibility of introducing Catholicism. These were Fr. Lebros and Bro. Hermann Kock. Mbarara Archdiocese is comprised of fivediocese namely Hoima Diocese, Fort Portal Diocese, Kabale Diocese, Kasese Diocese and Mbarara Diocese

  • TORORO

    The Story of the Archdiocese of Tororo is closely linked with the development of the Vicariate of the Upper Nile.  This Vicariate was established by Pope Leo XIII in 1894 and entrusted to the Mill Hill Missionaries.  It comprised the area stretching from St. Peter’s Church, Nsambya (Uganda) to St. Patrick’s Church, Naivasha, (Kenya). Its subsequent history can be looked at in four phases. Tororo archiodiocese consist of four dioceses these are Jinja, Kotido, Moroto and Soroti Diocese

 UGANDA CATHOLIC SECRETARIAT

OUR VISION

A caring and United Catholic Church

OUR MISSION

To promote Integral Human Development in the Whole world Inspired by the Gospel Values (LK.4:18ff).

OUR OBJECTIVES

To provide Holistic Health Care

Curative

Preventive

Promotional

Pastoral Care

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Msgr. John Baptist Kauta

 THE SECRETARY GENERAL

Msgr. John Baptist Kauta was born in Pallisa, Archdiocese of Tororo on 06th May, 1941. He was ordained a priest on10th December 1967.  In 1968 he was appointed Associate Pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Soroti, and St. Willibrod Church – Nagongera respectively.

 

He served as Secretary, Chancellor and Youth Chaplain, and Vocations Director of the Diocese of Tororo from 1969 to 1980. During the same period, he was also a Teacher, Head of Department, Careers’ Guidance, and Head of Department of Religigous Education at both O’ and A’ Level at Mbale Secondary School.

 

He was Associate Pastor of St. Patrick’s Church in Bedford, N.Y, USA from 1981 to 2006.  Msgr. Kauta served as Adjunct Professor at Manhattan College – New York, USA from 1995 to 2006.

He was appointed Secretary General of the Uganda Episcopal Conference, an office he has served from February 2007 to-date.

 

As the one in charge of the Uganda Catholic Secretariat, he is responsible under the direction of the Chairman of the Conference, for its development and efficient coordination of all its commissions, committees, institutions etc. He serves the conference in all matters which come under its scope. His particular duty of carrying out the mandates, directives, commissions and resolutions which the Plenary meeting or the Executive Board gives to him.

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Archdioceses

3388

Schools

19

Dioceses

219

Institutions

2379

Priests/Bishops

17766428

Catholic Population

640

Parishes

264

Hospitals

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