KAMPALA, APOSTOLIC VICARIATE of. - It is entrusted to the Society of St. Joseph of Mill Hill for the Foreign Missions and is situated in the protectorate of Uganda (British East Africa), in the south-south-western part of the former vicariate of the Upper Nile, from whose division (10 June 1948) it derives.
While the north-north-eastern part of the territory continued to be called the apostolic vicariate of the Upper Nile, the south-south-western part took the name of the apostolic vicariate of K., after the city which, constituting a quid unum with the adjacent mission station of Nsambra, represents the centre from which the Society of Mill Hill, from its first arrival in that region of Africa, spread Catholicism there. The vicariate of K. comprises a portion of the Kingdom of Buganda, namely part of the civil district of Mengo, and the civil district of Busoga. It is inhabited by the Baganda and Basoga tribes, who speak Luganda. It has an area of 16,226 sq. km., with a population, according to the statistics of 1947, of over 700,000 inhabitants, of whom over 100,000 are Catholics, 90,000 Protestants, 40,000 Muslims, and approximately 470,000 pagans. There are 9 native priests. The foreign missionaries are 50 priests and 5 lay brothers; the foreign sisters number 63, and the native sisters 85. There are 15 mission stations; approximately 240 teachers; and 79 schools. There is a minor seminary with 45 pupils and a major seminary with 47.