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| Bishop Barnabas Harim'imana |
The Catholic Church in Uganda is mourning the death of Bishop Barnabas Harim'imana, the Bishop Emeritus of Kabale Diocese who died on Sunday 3rd Jan 2016 afternoon at Nsambya hospital where he was admitted. Bishop Barnabas R. Halem’imana was laid to rest at Kabale Cathedral on Wednesday 6 Jan 2016.
Bishop Harim'imana was appointed and consecrated byHis Holiness Pope Paul VI at Kololo on 1st August 1969. He was consecrated alongside with Bishops Albert Edward Baharagate, Sarapio Bwemi Magambo and John Baptist Kabubi.
He was the first native Residential Bishop for Kabale Diocese to take over from Bishop Gervazio Nkalanga (A Bishop from Tanzania who was appointed and sent to establish a new Diocese in Kabale in 1966 in Uganda as Apostolic Administrator. Bishop Nkalanga also died on 18 December 2015.)
By AMECEA Online Reporter