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Christopher Walusimbi

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'''Christopher Walusimbi'' is a [[missionary]] [[priest]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia]] active on Bukasa Island in Uganda.  Fr. Christopher Walusimbi, was [[ordination|ordained ]] by the late Metropolitan [[Vitaly |Vitaly (Ustinov) of the Russian Orthodox Church outside New York]] of Russia, ROCOR in 1988 in Montreal, then Canada. Following his ordination he returned to Uganda on Bukasa Island in Lake Victoria Uganda to continue the missionary work began by his brother-in-law, Gerasimos Kambites, and his sister Sarah Sempa. Father He is the first Black African priest ordained in ROCOR and is under the omophorion of Metr. [[Hilarion|Hilarion (Kapral) of New York]], first hierarch of ROCOR.   Fr. Christopher took upon himself assumed a great burden to help those children orphaned in the Sesse Islands, who were orphaned as a result of the Aids AIDS pandemic.He is the first Black African Priest ordained in ROCOR and is now (2008) directly under Metropolitan Hilarion. A married Priest priest he has had 10 ten children. Sadly his two eldest sons, Alex and George , drowned in lake Lake Victoria as one jumped in into the lake to save the other. Father Fr. Christopher has built a magnifecent magnificent temple of the Annunciation, out odf of stone and topped with a multiomulti-coloured colored Russian style cupola. He has also for the past 25 years run an ambulence ambulance service from the island to the mainland 40 miles to the north. [[Category: Clergy]][[Category: Priests]]
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