Pro-gay bishop Ssenyonjo defies Archbishop Orombi
Tuesday, 28th March, 2006

The controversial Dr. Christopher Ssenyonjo, who was excommunicated by the Church of Uganda Bishop Dr. Luke Orombi, and stripped of his title and rights, is defiant.

Ssenyonjo told a press conference at his residence in Bukoto, a Kampala suburb, yesterday that he was still a bishop of the Anglican Church of Uganda despite a letter and a statement from Orombi to the contrary.

Ssenyonjo was once suspended by the church over his sympathies for gays. In the statement, Orombi said the Church was taken aback when Ssenyonjo got "a new Archbishop Howard" in America, formed a new denomination, the Charismatic Church of Uganda and consecrated a bishop.

Christopher Ssenyonjo has now been denied the right to exercise the office of a bishop, or retired bishop, in the Church of Uganda, including the spiritual authority as a minister of the Word and sacraments," he said. the rest