The body of the Orthodox Archbishop Metropolitan, Jonah Lwanga, will arrive in Uganda this Saturday (September 18), Vice President Jessica Alupo has said.

Alupo attributed the delayed repatriation of the body of the servant of God, to strict COVID-19 protocols in Greece.

“I can now confirm that the body of Archbishop Lwanga who died in Athens, Greece; is being transported back home with the help of the Government of Uganda,” she said in a Wednesday tweet posted on her official Twitter handle. 

Lwanga passed away in Greece after battling with sickness for several weeks. 

He was a Ugandan prelate, who served as the Metropolitan of Kampala and all Uganda, in Central Africa under the Eastern Orthodox Church of Alexandria, from 1997 until his death in September 2021.   

Lwanga has since been replaced by his Eminence Archbishop Makarios Tillyrides of Nairobi, after he was appointed the caretaker of the holy metropolis of Kampala, by his beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria.  

Makarios is also expected to preside over the burial of Lwanga.