Cyprian Kizito Lwanga (19 January 1953 – 3 April 2021) was a Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Kampala from 2006 until his death.
[2] Lwanga was born on 19 January 1953 at Kyabakadde Village, in Naggalama Parish, in present-day Mukono District in the Buganda Region of Uganda, within the Diocese of Lugazi.
[2] On 2 February 2020, Lwanga issued a decree that Catholics in the archdiocese of Kampala could only receive Holy Communion on the tongue and not on the hand.
[4][5][6] In his last public appearance on Good Friday 2 April 2021 during the way of the cross he criticized the violations of human rights in Uganda, fueling rumors of him being poisoned.
[12] An autopsy was carried out by four senior pathologists on Monday, 5 April 2021, at Mulago National Referral Hospital, in the presence of two family representatives and two physicians/surgeons appointed by the Catholic Church.