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Name: STREICHER, Henri CBE (Rt. Rev.)
Birth Date: 29.7.1863 Wasselonne, Alsace
Death Date: 7.6.1952 Villa Maria, Masaka, Uganda
Nationality: German
First Date: 1891
Last Date: 1952
Profession: Became a Roman Catholic Archbishop (Order of White Fathers). Visited by Roosevelt in 1909. Head of Mission at Mengo in 1905
Area: Mengo, Kampala, Served in Uganda for 61 years
Book Reference: Gillett, Roosevelt, EAHB 1905, Red 25, North, Red 22, UJ, BEA, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1907
School: St Cyr College, Nevers, France
General Information:
North - arr. Zanzibar 1890; arr. Rubaga Feb 1891; Rubaga 21/2/1891; Founded "Villa Maria" mission, Buddu, March 1891; opened station at Koki, 1894, "Our Lady of Peace" mission; Rubaga Jan 1896; Vicar Apostolic of Nyanza 1896; Villa Maria Mission, Buddu, June 1897; Rubaga 15/10/1903
Uganda Journal - Vol. 20, No. 1 - Uganda Twenty-Five Years Ago by C. Handley Bird CBE - Monseigneur Streicher was in semi-retirement at Villa Maria but he had been responsible for immense development and consolidation of the Roman Church. He, too, continued a power in the land with a happy outlook on life that encouraged the younger generation.
Uganda Journal Vol 17 No 1 p.63 - In Memoriam - Archbishop Henri Streicher, CBE [5 pages]
Red 25 - Titular Bishop of Tabora, Vicar Apostolic of Uganda. Consecrated Bishop 1897