Word: masaka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BISHOP JOSEPH KIWANUKA, of Masaka in Uganda, was consecrated at Rome in 1939, the first native African bishop of modern times. Swirling round his diocese in a 1956 Chevrolet and a cloud of dust. Bishop Kiwanuka, 58, oversees the work of 58 African priests, plus 15 white priests who work as teachers in schools and seminaries, are being replaced as native priests are trained to fill their posts. Many Masaka seminarians take specialist courses outside Africa after their ordination, and Bishop Kiwanuka himself hopes to make his second visit to the U.S. next year to study sociology. His biggest problem...
...Africa will probably be represented in the college for the first time, with Joseph Kiwánuka, Negro Bishop of Masaka in the Uganda, as the leading candidate...
...Lexington, Kentucky's Keeneland Sale, the Aga Khan's nine-year-old bay mare, Masaka, was bought by Horsetrader A. B. Hancock Jr. for $105,000, highest price ever paid for a thoroughbred brood mare at a U.S. auction...
...twelve-year-old Uganda boy to read, the priest sent Joe to mission school. From there he went to a seminary run by the White Fathers, and was eventually ordained a priest at the age of 30. Only ten years later, in 1939, the Pope made him Bishop of Masaka, Uganda, East Africa...