Apolo Kivebulaya, Evangelist in Central Africa
30 May -- Commemoration
If celebrated as a Lesser Festival,
Common of Missionaries, page 503
Apolo Kivebulaya's first contact with Christian teaching was
in 1884 and he was baptised the following year, becoming a
teacher in the Church of Uganda. He went as an evangelist
and catechist to Boga in the Belgian Congo and was ordained
priest in 1903. He built many churches and prepared
countless catechumens for baptism. He spent the rest of his
life at Boga, training teachers, supervising the school and
evangelising the people of the forest. After his death on
this day in 1933, the Church Missionary Society sent British
missionaries to carry on his work.