Emmanuel Wamala [SEP] place of birth
Emmanuel Wamala
Emmanuel Wamala (born 15 December 1926) was archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kampala, Uganda. He was created a Cardinal-Priest of S. Ugo in 1994. He served as archbishop of Kampala until he resigned on 30 September 2006.
Priesthood.
Wamala was born in Kamaggwa parish of Lwaggulwe Masaka district, Uganda. He was ordained, on 21 December 1957, chapel of the Pontifical Collegio Urbaniano, Rome, by Pietro Sigismondi. In the same ceremony Stephen Fumio Hamao, future cardinal, was also
them Emmanuel Wamala and Emmanuel Nsubuga) were having breakfast. After he explained what had happened, they gave him clerical robes and arranged for a driver to take him to Busiro County. Volunteers carried over 200 bodies of fallen Baganda to the morgue, while the military buried uncounted numbers in mass graves.
Aftermath.
Within a few days the Kabaka and two of his bodyguards were able to cross the border to Burundi and exile. After brief stays in Nairobi and Addis Ababa he was given asylum in the United Kingdom where