Name James Odongo | ||
#PMLive: Archbishop James Odongo Living in Pain
James Odongo (born 27 March 1931) is a theologian and bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Uganda. He was born in Molo, Uganda, Odongo was ordinated priest and was in the clergy of the Diocese of Tororo incardinated on 22 December 1956. He is the participant at the last session of the Second Vatican Council. Odongo was appointed by Pope Paul VI as the ordinated titular bishop of Bahanna on 25 November 1964 and auxiliary bishop of Tororo. The episcopal ordination that Archbishop of Dar es Salaam Laurean Rugambwa donated him co-consecrators were John Francis Greif, MHM, a bishop of Tororo, Vincent Joseph McCauley, CSC, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Portal and ceremony took place on 16 February 1965. On 19 August 1968, he was appointed as the bishop of Tororo and 5 January 1985, Pope John Paul II appointed him as the bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Uganda. On 2 January 1999, Odongo became the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tororo and he announced his resignation as the archbishop on 27 June 2007.