At least 144 years have passed since foreign religion was introduced to the Kabaka’s court. But the relationship between the seat of the Kabaka at Mengo and the three dominant religions, namely.
Daily Monitor
Saturday April 10 2021
Summary
Mr Patrick Katagata says: Church and State should have good relations with one another and work together for the common good.
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The State never said it had bad blood with Kampala Archbishop Cyprian Lwanga but opportunist politicians jumped onto his demise suggesting foul play with the State first ‘suspected culprit’! Such politicians and their ilk premise[d] their claims on the fallen prelate’s unflinching boldness in pointing out government’s inadequacies and perhaps akin to what transpired between president Idi Amin and Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum, thought that the State wished him out of its way! Nothing could be further from this illusionary thinking than insinuations in their eulogies.
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
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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.