{"id":61168,"date":"2023-11-28T15:44:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/bukedi-diocese-ordains-priest-17-deacons"},"modified":"2023-11-28T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T16:20:46","slug":"bukedi-diocese-ordains-priest-17-deacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/bukedi-diocese-ordains-priest-17-deacons","title":{"rendered":"Bukedi Diocese ordains priest,\u00a017 deacons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span><b>At least one priest and 17 deacons were ordained in Bukedi Diocese on Sunday with Bukedi Diocese Bishop Samuel George Bogere Egesa calling on servants of God to ensure Christians understand biblical preachings.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019I have been preaching to make people know how to pray but we are saying can we go ahead to educate them to understand what we teach and encourage them to work to improve on their living standards because we can\u2019t preach to starved and poor congregation,\u2019\u2019 the bishop said during the ordination at St. Paul&#8217;s Church of Uganda in Syamalede Archdeaconry<\/p>\n<p>The bishop blamed what he called \u201cordinary preachings for the continuous backsliding in faith since believers are not taught how to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prelate also said the newly ordained are a big relief to the diocese noting that this will address shortages of priests and deacons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should be messengers, watchmen and stewards of the Lord, teach and practice what you teach,\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n<p>He tasked the Christians to look after their church leaders to enable them do their work without any worries.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Busia District LC5 chairperson Stephen Mugeni Wasike urged parliamentarians to develop an act that compels government to fund them like cultural institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019We are saying if government can fund cultural institution why can\u2019t it do the same to religious institutions because first of all they don\u2019t have a source of income to pay preachers who are doing a lot in shaping morals and praying for peace. I\u2019m going to start with my council to make sure that we create a vote for religious institutions in our budget,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, at Sunday\u2019s ceremony, Rev. Ivan Bola was elevated from deacon to priesthood while Patrick Oteba, Philip Owor, Selvester Wangira, Stephen Ongiriang, Yarrow Mbayo, John Martin Otude, Joshua Magera John Tekei, John Ofumbi, James Ojulo, Jackson Owor, Irene Barbara Amayo, Godfrey Suguya, Gilbert Olupot, Fredrick Oundo, Faith Namuyonga and Benedicto Lubega were ordained deacons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. At least one priest and 17 deacons were ordained in Bukedi Diocese on Sunday with Bukedi Diocese Bishop Samuel George Bogere Egesa calling on servants of God to ensure Christians understand biblical preachings. \u2018\u2019I have been preaching to make people know how to pray but we are saying can we go ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":61167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-61168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bukedi Diocese ordains priest,\u00a017 deacons - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At least one priest and 17 deacons were ordained in Bukedi Diocese on Sunday with Bukedi Diocese Bishop Samuel George ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/bukedi-diocese-ordains-priest-17-deacons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bukedi Diocese ordains priest,\u00a017 deacons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At least one priest and 17 deacons were ordained in Bukedi Diocese on Sunday with Bukedi Diocese Bishop Samuel George ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/bukedi-diocese-ordains-priest-17-deacons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-28T15:44:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-28T16:20:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/11\/sm_1701175643.767134.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/bukedi-diocese-ordains-priest-17-deacons#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/bukedi-diocese-ordains-priest-17-deacons\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bukedi Diocese ordains priest,\u00a017 deacons\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-28T15:44:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-28T16:20:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/bukedi-diocese-ordains-priest-17-deacons\"},\"wordCount\":344,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/bukedi-diocese-ordains-priest-17-deacons#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/11\/sm_1701175643.767134.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"culture and art\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/bukedi-diocese-ordains-priest-17-deacons#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/bukedi-diocese-ordains-priest-17-deacons\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/bukedi-diocese-ordains-priest-17-deacons\",\"name\":\"Bukedi Diocese ordains priest,\u00a017 deacons - 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