Hoima Catholic Diocese, is head-quartered in the city of Hoima in the Mid-western region of Uganda covering the Kingdom of Bunyoro Kitara, home to a variety of people, cultures and ethnicities. The diocese is part of the Ecclesiastical province of Mbarara, Uganda.
Bishop Vincent Kirabo Amooti was ordained a priest on 9 September 1979 after studying at the Uganda Martyrs' National Major Seminary Aloculum in Gulu and at St. Mary's National Seminary in Ggaba. He was appointed bishop by Pope Francis, on 30 November 2015 and was consecrated as Bishop of Hoima on 28 February 2016 by Archbishop Paul Kamuza Bakyenga, Archbishop of Mbarara, assisted by Bishop Emeritus Albert Edward Baharagate and Bishop Lambert Bainomugisha.
The Most Reverend Lambert Bainomugisha (Incumbent Archishop of Mbarara Archdiocese) served as Hoima diocese's Apostolic Administrator from 2009 to 2015.
The Most Reverend Deogratias Dr. Muganwa Byabazaire was born on October 9, 1941 to Laurent Muganwa of Dwoli village, Kitoba sub-county Hoima district.
The Right Reverend Albert Edward Dr. Baharagate was born to Isidore Kwebiiha and Febronia Kabanaku at Nyamigisa village, Masindi, District, Uganda on 25 February 1930. Ordained to the priesthood on December 7, 1958 at Nyamigisa Parish, Masindi, his first assignment was as a chaplain at St. Leos’s College Kyegobe in Fort Portal from where he was sent for further studies in Rome.
Bishop Cyprian Biyehima Kihangire was born March 19, 1918, in the present day Kikuube district, in the Bunyoro Sub-region (Mid-western region of Uganda). His original birth place is called Kidoma Village which he himself renamed and baptized as Kihangi. He was ordained a priest on February 17, 1951.
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