Joseph Kiwanuka
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
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Joseph Kiwánuka, MAfr (June 25, 1899—February 22, 1966) was a Ugandan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Rubaga from 1960 until his death.
Joseph Kiwánuka was born in Nakirebe, Mpigi District, to Catholic parents, Victoro Katumba Munduekanika and Felicitas Nankya Ssabawebwa Namukasa. Each day, Victoro and his family walked eight miles to Mass at the nearest mission station. He was sent to Mitala Maria Mission School in 1910, after a missionary, who had seen him reading a book, was favorably impressed by this ability. He graduated in 1914, whence he entered the minor seminary in. Kiwánuka where he found his vocation greatly tested but persevered nonetheless. He then joined the Major Seminary of Katigondo, where he excelled in philosophy, and sought to enter the Missionaries of Africa, more commonly known as the White Fathers, in 1923. However, Bishop Henri Streicher, the Apostolic Vicar of Uganda and himself a White Father, was against his decision. The Superior General of the White Fathers at the time finally agreed to admit Kiwánuka after his ordination.
He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Streicher on May 26, 1929. Streicher then sent the young priest to Rome to study canon law, in an attempt to prevent him from entering the White Fathers' novitiate, which had invited Kiwánuka in July of that year. In Rome, Kiwánuka studied at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, from where he later obtained his doctorate in canon law, with a dissertation on marriage.
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