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[email protected] • Sacraments Compared with many other parts of Africa, In 1961 the growth of the Church of Uganda www.brill.nl Christianity came late to Uganda. The first was recognized in the Anglican Communion envoys of the Church Missionary Society with the establishment of the Church of the www.idc.nl arrived at King Mutesa’s court on June 30, Province of Uganda, Rwanda-Burundi and 1877. After eight decades, and despite severe Boga-Zaire. persecution, Uganda ultimately became one of the most successful mission fields in the world. This collection is an important source not only By 1914, nearly the whole of the area we now for the history of Christianity in Uganda, but know as Uganda was evangelized, largely due also for the political and social development to the work of its indigenous teachers and with of the country, both before and after its support from a few European missionaries.