Henry Luke Orombi

Henry Luke Orombi (* 1949 in Goli, Uganda ) is the Anglican Archbishop of the Church of Uganda and Bishop of Kampala. In this role, he is also the Chancellor of Uganda Christian University.

Henry Orombi was, in northwestern Uganda, born in Goli. In teacher training college he was converted to Christ. In 1974 he first met Janani Luwum ​​the then Primate of Uganda, who convinced him that he should study theology. He then attended the Bishop Tucker Theological College, now the Uganda Christian University near Kampala. During this time he got to the seminar that Janani Luwum ​​the then Primate of Uganda by Idi Amin's soldiers were kidnapped. Luwam was killed shortly thereafter.

After the seminar served as a youth pastor and was arrested under Idi Amin and was some time in prison. In 1979 he was ordained a priest and from 1980 to 1983, he attended St John 's College Nottingham in England.

After his return he was to 1986 more than a youth pastor in the Diocese of Madi and West Nile from 1987 to 1993. Than archdeacon in Goli in the district of Moyo and 1993-2003 Bishop of Nebbi He started there with practically nothing, and after ten years he had set up an ecclesiastical infrastructure, churches, training centers, a runway for airplanes of missionaries involved and social work in the city and in the country the Anglican employees from South Korea, Scotland, England and Germany attracted.

On Jul 4th 2003, he was elected as the new Archbishop and on 25 January 2004 is installed in a solemn Mass in front of 2000 guests, including President Yoweri Museveni. In 2008, he professed himself, according to a report in the newspaper New Vision, fearing for his life to have, because of murderous intentions of homosexual people who he thinks to be heard.