Online Church: @Our Lady of Africa Church Mbuya today, August 17, 2025

THE BEGINNINGS
In 1960, a group of Missionaries, known as the Verona Fathers (later called the Comboni Missionaries), took up residence at Mbuya. They came at the invitation of the Bishop of Kampala, Rt. Rev. V. Billington, who donated 8 hectares of land east of Kampala.

Their founder, Bishop Daniel Comboni, had passed away in Khartoum in 1881. Just two weeks before his death, he wrote: “I have to confess that I have never been better endowed than now with true tested missionaries and sisters. They are all steadfast, solid, and unshakable in trials.”

Comboni’s dream of reaching the Great Lakes region, part of his vast vicariate of Central Africa, was realized through his missionaries. Descending along the Nile, they entered Uganda in February 1910 and established themselves in the northern part of the country. Here, they became the first agents of evangelization, sharing their founder’s belief in the hidden potential of the African people and emulating his compassion for the most abandoned.