Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Kampala Archdiocese, Archives

    • Postal Address:

      Box 14125
      Kampala
      Uganda

    • Location:

      Mengo

    • Telephone:

      256 041 270183 /4

    • Facsimile:

      256 041 345 441

    • E-mail:

      kngcathc@utlonline.co.ug

    • Director:

      Rev. Fr. Joseph Ssali

    • Year founded:

      1879

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Archive

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Artifacts
      Ecclesiastical records
      Ephemera
      Government records
      Grey literature
      Manuscripts
      Maps
      Music
      Newspapers
      Oral histories
      Personal papers
      Photographs
      Posters
      Sound recordings

    • Size:

      Archives: 15 x 10 meters over 1000 dossiers; Library: 15 x 10 meters

    • Holdings:

      1. Ordinary Records: 1879- to date, classified in "periods" 2. Duplicata: Baptism & Marriage registers, 1879 to date 3. Officialitas: Marriage court cases 1891 ??to 4. Manuscripts: specially on language and religion 1880's to date 5. Early publications: especially on language and religion 1880's to date 6. Some old films and photos, maps and plans 7. Consulting library

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, French, Latin, Ugandan

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      See Consultation Request form;

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

    • Kampala Archdiocese for the Consultation of the Archdiocesan Archives. n.d. uga-aka.pdf
    • Who Can Use Church Archives?. article, n.d. uga-aka_wcuca.pdf