1,935,307 CUSTOMERS AND UGX3.6 TRILLION IN ASSETS: The tale of Fr. Mapeera, a French missionary and Centenary Bank, Uganda’s second-largest bank

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At ten minutes past 1:00pm on the 12th of May 1890, Reverend Father Siméon Lourdel breathed his last, aged just 37 years. Fr. Lourdel and Amans Delmas, an auxiliary brother who arrived in Uganda on February 17th, 1789 marked the birth of Catholic Christianity in Uganda. So in 1979, as the Catholic Church in Uganda was preparing to celebrate 100 years of Catholicism in Uganda, Catholic lea