Daily Monitor
Friday April 09 2021
The crypt where Kampala Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga was laid to rest at St Mary’s Cathedral Church Rubaga yesterday. photo/DAVID LUBOWA
Summary
At least two other leaders of the Ugandan Catholic Church have been buried in the Rubaga Cathedral crypt.
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The late Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga yesterday became the third prelate to be buried inside Rubaga Cathedral, witnessed by about 500 people in a close knit ceremony.
He was placed on the right hand side in the cathedral between the graves of Bishop Edouard Michaud and Archbishop Joseph Kiwanuka, behind the choir precinct.
Canadian Bishop, Edouard Michaud of the White Fathers missionaries was the first cleric to be laid to rest there in 1945 after serving as vicar apostolic of Uganda from 1933. In 1966, Bishop Kiwanuka too got the honors when he passed on after being the first native African to be ordained a bishop.