His Eminence, the Most Reverend Jonah (Lwanga) is the Archbishop of Kampala and All Uganda, in central Africa, part of the Eastern Orthodox Church of Alexandria

Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria

The Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, also known as the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa is an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Orthodox Christianity.Officially, it is called the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria to distinguish it from the...

. His see is Kampala, with jurisdiction over all Uganda. This Church, numbering about 60,000 people dates back to the 1930s.

Lwanga's grandfather, Obadiah Basajjakitalo, was one of the two initial leaders of the Orthodox Church in Uganda along with Ruben Spartas Mukasa

Ruben Spartas Mukasa

Ruben Spartas Mukasa was an early-20th Century religious reformer in Uganda. He had been part of the King's African Rifles of the British Army, but came to feel that there needed to be an end to colonial rule in Africa and that this must be obtained through a religious rejuvenation with...

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Lwanga was educated at a Greek Orthdox Seminary in Crete and at the University of Athens.

Sources

• Article on the Eastern Orthdox Church in Uganda
• Jonah (Lwanga) of Kampala at OrthodoxWiki.

External Links

• Metropolitan Jonah of Kampala and All Uganda at Orthodox Research Institute. (OCMC
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