Images of Ugandan Christianity

Rev Sira Dongo & Paulo, Anglican catechists who established the church in Acholi. Photo courtesy of the Church Mission Society.
Rev Sira Dongo & Paulo, Anglican catechists.

Muganda evangelist setting off for his assignment. Photo courtesy of the Church Mission Society.
Muganda evangelist

The first Bannabikira in 1910. Photo courtesy of the Society of Missionaries of Africa Archive.
The first Bannabikira sisters.

Pastor Leo Rucibigango leading the 25th Anniversary celebrations of Glad Tidings Mission at Central Park, Kampala in 1960. Photo courtesy of Uganda Pentecostal Week.
25th Anniversary celebrations of Glad Tidings Mission

Charles Lwanga baptizing Kizito at Munyonyo before their martyrdom in 1886.
Charles Lwanga baptizing Kizito

Janani Jakaliya Luwum, Archbishop of the Province of the Church of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-Zaire, murdered by the Amin regime in 1977.Image courtsey of Louise Pirouet's papers, Centre of African Studies Library, University of Cambridge.
Archbishop Janani Jakaliya Luwum

The Rev Florence Njangali, the first Ugandan woman ordained into the Church of Uganda. Image courtesy of Uganda Christian University, Mukono.
Rev Florence Njangali

Archbishop Joseph Nakabaale Kiwanuka, the first African to be appointed as bishop of Masaka in 1939 and of any diocese in Sub-Saharan Africa in the twentieth century. Scanned from Yves Tourigny, So Abundant a Harvest.
Archbishop Joseph Nakabaale Kiwanuka

 

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