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Name: HANLON, Henry (Rt. Rev Bishop)

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Birth Date: 7.1.1862 Manchester

Death Date: 17.8.1937 Freshfield, Lancs.

Nationality: British

First Date: 1895

Profession: First Roman Catholic Bishop of Uganda. Visited by Roosevelt in 1909.

Area: Mengo, Uganda

Book Reference: Gillett, Roosevelt, EAHB 1905, Hut, North, Playne, Land, BEA, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1907, Beck

School: St Augustine's Manchester, St Joeph's Coll. Mill Hill

General Information:

North - Mill Hill Fathers - 1st MHF caravan to Uganda; Appt. Vicar Apostolic of the Upper Nile 17/7/1894; Consecrated Bishop of Teos in Rome, dep for EA 9/5/1895 arr. Kampala 6/9/1895; Kampala 1897; Toured Busoga 1898
Land 1909 - Rt. Rev. Henry Hanlon - Buildings 62,640 sq.ft. - Kisumu - 28/2/04 - Leasehold for 99 years from 1/1/09 - Registered 30/7/09
Land 1909 - Rt. Rev. Henry Hanlon - Agricultural 305.6 acres - Kakumega - 21/8/06 - Leasehold for 99 years from 1/9/07 - Registered 23/8/09
Land 1909 - Right Rev. H. Hanlon - Mission, 240.6 acres - Mumias - 17/3/05 - Leasehold for 99 years from 1/1/10 - Registered 11/5/10
North - formerly in India; Land Grant application for mission at Kisumu 28-2-1904
EAHB 1905 - Head of St.  Joseph's Mission, Nsambya Hill, Mengo in 1905
Has a Wikipedia entry - Upon arrival Bishop Hanlon and his missionaries were received by Kabaka Mwanga II, who offered them land on Nsambya Hill where they established their mission station. As of June 2018, the site is occupied by St Peter's Catholic Church, Nsambya. Hanlon founded new parishes at Budaka and Masaba in 1901 and at Nyondo in 1906. In 1903 he brought a congregation of the Fransciscan Sisters of St Joseph from Manchester to Kampala where they established a school, St. Peter's School Nsambya, and a hospital, St. Francis Hospital Nsambya, for the local district. He continued in that position until 17 November 1911 when he resigned, becoming the Vicar Apostolic Emeritus.Bishop Hanlon is credited with he establishment of Namilyango College, an all-boys, residential, Catholic boarding school, founded in March 1902, at Namilyango, approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi), east of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. One of the dormitories at the college is named after him.

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