John Sentamu

John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu, FRSA ( born June 10, 1949 in Kampala, Uganda) is the Archbishop of York, Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of York and Primate of England and thus after the Archbishop of Canterbury is the second highest dignitaries of the Church of England. He's the first archbishop in England, who belongs to an ethnic minority.

Life

John Sentamu was born in a village near Kampala, the sixth of thirteen children. He studied law at Makerere University in Kampala and worked as a lawyer at the Supreme Court of Uganda. In 1973 he was appointed by Idi Amin to the judges of the Supreme Court. When he did not comply with a command to acquit a cousin of the dictator, he incurred the wrath of the dictator himself, came three weeks after his wedding for 90 days in prison and was tortured there. His decision to become a priest, was created by the murder of his friend, the Archbishop Janani Luwum ​​. Through a study place at Cambridge, it was possible for him to flee from Uganda.

In England, he studied theology at Cambridge, in 1979 ordained a priest of the Anglican Church, and his doctorate in 1984 for Ph. D.. He worked in various communities as auxiliary chaplain, vicar and priest until he was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of 1996 Stepney. He was appointed Bishop of Birmingham in 2002.

Sentamu was naturalized in England and is now a citizen of Uganda and the United Kingdom.

In 2005 he was, according to political tradition to the proposal of the Prime Minister, elected by the chapter to the Archbishop of York.

In 2008 he the University of Cambridge awarded an honorary doctorate.