Church of Uganda
member province of the Anglican Communion
The Church of Uganda (COU) is a member province of the Anglican Communion. Currently, there are 39 dioceses that make up the Church of Uganda, each headed by a bishop.
Each diocese is divided into archdeaconries, each headed by a senior priest known as an archdeacon. The archdeaconries are further subdivided into parishes, headed by a parish priest. Parishes are subdivided into sub-parishes, headed by lay readers. As of the 2014 census, 32% of Ugandans, or 10,941,268 people consider themselves affiliated with the church, down from 36.7% at the 2002 census. As of the 2024 census, 29% of Ugandans, or 13,311,801 people, identified with the Church of Uganda. In 2021, the World Christian Database, produced by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, estimated there were 16,297,000 members of the Church of Uganda. According to a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Anglican Studies published in 2016 by the Cambridge University Press, the Church of Uganda has more than 8 million members, and approximately 795,000 active baptised members. In 2020, a peer-reviewed study found that the Church of Uganda may be the largest province of the Anglican Communion as measured by those actively identifying as Anglicans (but not by baptized membership) or 10.9 million Anglicans.
The public source identifies “Church of Uganda” as member province of the Anglican Communion. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Church, Uganda and member.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1723759. VIAF identifies the subject as 261414667. The Library of Congress control number is n82037497. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2002, 2024 and 2021.
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This entry incorporates text from “Church of Uganda” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.