Emmanuel Wamala

Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala (* December 15 1926 in Kamaggwa, Uganda ) is Archbishop Emeritus of Kampala.

Life

Emmanuel Wamala studied in Katigondo and Rome, the subjects of Catholic Theology, philosophy and social sciences, and received on 21 December 1957 in Rome, the sacrament of Holy Orders by Luigi Traglia. He put Lizentiatsprüfungen in Catholic theology and social sciences and deepened his studies in Rome, Kampala and at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana (USA). From 1960 to 1981 he worked in the Diocese of Masaka as a church pastor, school superintendent, high school teacher and vicar general.

On 17 July 1981, Pope John Paul II appointed the first bishop of the newly established Diocese Kiyinda - Mityana. He received his episcopal consecration Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga cardinal on 22 November of the same year were co-consecrators Adrian Kivumbi Ddungu, Bishop of Masaka in Uganda, and Josef Stimpfle, Archbishop of Augsburg. On June 21, 1988, he was appointed by John Paul II first to Koadjutorerzbischof in the Archdiocese of Kampala and was on February 8, 1990 Archbishop of the archdiocese.

John Paul II took Emmanuel Wamala on 26 November 1994 as a Cardinal with the priestly title Sant'Ugo Church in the College of Cardinals to.

Wamala was a participant at Conclave 2005, in which Benedict XVI. was chosen. This took on 19 August 2006 Wamalas reasons of age that emerges resignation. At the conclave in 2013, he did not attend because he had exceeded the age limit of 80 years.