John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu (pronounced: SEN-ta-moo; born 10 June 1949) is the 97th Archbishop of York, Metropolitan of the province of York, Primate of England and a columnist for a tabloid newspaper. He is the second most senior cleric in the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
Sentamu was born in 1949 in a village near Kampala, Uganda, the sixth of 13 children. He read law (LL.B.) at Makerere University, Kampa...
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John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu (pronounced: SEN-ta-moo; born 10 June 1949) is the 97th Archbishop of York, Metropolitan of the province of York, Primate of England and a columnist for a tabloid newspaper. He is the second most senior cleric in the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
Sentamu was born in 1949 in a village near Kampala, Uganda, the sixth of 13 children. He read law (LL.B.) at Makerere University, Kampala, and practised as an advocate of the High Court of Uganda until 1974. In 1973 he married Margaret.. Three weeks after his marriage he incurred the wrath of the dictator Idi Amin and was detained for 90 days. In a speech in 2007, he described how during that time he had been "kicked around like a football and beaten terribly", saying "the temptation to give up hope of release was always present". He fled his home country to arrive as an immigrant in the United Kingdom in 1974.
He read theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge (BA 1976, MA 1979,...
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