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Kivebulaya, Apolo, 1864?-1933

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Personal name headingKivebulaya, Apolo, 1864?-1933
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Variant(s)Kivebulaya, Apollos, 1864?-1933
Apolo Kivebulaya, 1864?-1933
Associated countryUganda Congo (Democratic Republic)
Associated placeToro (Uganda)
Birth date1864~
Death date1933-05-30
Place of birthUganda
Place of deathMboga (Congo)
AffiliationSt. Paul's Cathedral (Namirembe, Kampala, Uganda)
Profession or occupationClergy Missionaries Deacons
Found inApolo of the Pygmy forest, 1923 (1928 printing): page 9 (Apolo (Apollos) Kivebulaya, African clergy of Buganda origin)
LC data base, 02-12-94 (hdg.: Kivebulaya, Apolo, 1864?-1933)
Smith, Edwin W. A tentative grammar of the Efe or Mbuti language, 1938: leaf 1 (Canon Apolo Kivebulaya; as of 1930 was translating the Gospel of St. Mark into the 'Mbuti' language, spoken by Pygmies of the Congo Forest; born in Uganda about 1864; briefly a pupil of Alexander Mackay, but was not converted till later; after his baptism in 1895, he volunteered to serve as an evangelist in Toro, 200 miles to the west; learned but never mastered Nyoro language) leaf 2 (in late 1896 he reached the highlands of Mboga, where in the course of 37 years he built up a vigorous church; a keen missionary, carried the Gospel to other tribes besides the Banyamboga; befriended and lived with the Pygmies) leaf 4 (ordained deacon in 1900 and priest in 1903; in 1922 was appointed a Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, Namirembe; he died at Mboga 30 May, 1933)