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Appointments in the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara (ARKBK-CLBG)
The Association of the Representatives of the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara Worldwide (ARKBK CLBG) has announced the following appointments in respect of serving Officers of the Abbey-Principality:
Goodwill Ambassador at Large:
The Most Revd. Peter Paul Brennan, OCR
The Most Revd. Howard Weston-Smart, Duke of Gatrun
The Rt. Revd. Abbot Dom Klaus Schlapps, OPR, Duke of Saih Nasra
Omukama Kabalega named National Hero of Uganda by President Museveni
In 2009, Omukama Kabalega of Bunyoro-Kitara, the benefactor of the Abbey-Principality of San Luigi, was named a National Hero of Uganda by President Museveni. The report from Uganda’s leading daily newspaper New Vision follows:
“KABALEGA NAMED NATIONAL HERO
Publish Date: Jun 10, 2009
BY BARBARA KAIJA AND ANNE MUGISA
OMUKAMA (King) Kabalega of Bunyoro was yesterday declared a national hero by President Yoweri Museveni and honoured with a three-gun salute for his nine-year resistance against the British colonialists.
Museveni and other dignitaries at the Heroes Day celebrations, who included the chief Justice Benjamin Odoki, laid a wreath on Kabalega’s grave in the mausoleum at Mparo Hill, the burial place for the Bunyoro royalty.
Museveni said Kabalega’s heroic resistance against colonialism was broken by disunity among Africans after the colonialists pitted them against each other.
The British employed a divide-and-rule strategy which saw Africans fight Kabalega who was trying to fight colonial expansionism, he explained. The NRM fought its war in the footsteps of Kabalega and Mwanga, he added, that is why they named two of their units after them.
Museveni praised Kabalega, calling him far-sighted because he rejected the offer by Sir Samuel Baker to transfer his kingdom to be under Khedive Ismail of Egypt.
A total of 83 veterans and participants of the NRA liberation war were honoured with medals for their œcontribution to the political development of the country.
Three types of medals were given out at the celebrations on Boma grounds in Hoima town: the Nalubale Medal, the Luweero Triangle Medal and the Damu (blood) Medal.
Among those awarded were public service minister Henry Kajura, Matayo Kyaligonza, now ambassador to Burundi, former minister Baguma Isoke, presidential adviser Kasirivu Atwoki and Matia Kasaija, the Minister of State for Internal Affairs.
Gen. Elly Tumwine, who read out the names, said others were being compiled for recognition. He asked people to submit the names of those they believe should be awarded to the committee, headed by Prof. Mondo Kagonyera.
In his address, Museveni said the celebrations were meant to demonstrate that it takes heroes to create impact in society.
He stressed that not only the people who fought to liberate the country from tyranny were heroes, but also the peasants who supported them.
“I congratulate you for removing the fascist dictatorships which used the gun to monopolise power over society. Uganda now is no longer a pariah state.”
He noted there were many other patriotic Ugandans, such as the late Dr. Matthew Lukwiya who succumbed to Ebola while treating patients.
“We never fought because we loved to fight, but we needed to escape from the death knell in which we were trapped. Fighting was a means of last resort,” Museveni stressed.
He defended his patriotism campaign, arguing that the eight million primary school pupils need to be guided to love their country as a way of economic survival.
He scoffed at people who criticise the campaign, saying he was carrying out his constitutional duty.
“It is never too late to be patriotic because we all have a stake. Economic orientation should be regarded as a necessity for development”, Museveni said.”
44th anniversary of the passing to spirit of Mar Joannes I
Memory Eternal!
Prince-Abbot appointed a Chaplain of the Order of St John (Russian Grand Priory)
The Prelate of the British Association of the Order of St John Knights Hospitaller (Russian Grand Priory), the Most Revd. Dr. Howard Weston-Smart, has appointed the Prince-Abbot as a Chaplain of the Order.
The Prince-Abbot will be formally installed in his new role in a ceremony in London on 30 June.
San Luigi Gazette Notice 2012/01
PROCLAMATION OF THE PRINCE-ABBOT
MATRICULATION OF ARMS
CONCESSION OF THE TITLE OF DUKE OF FEUAT
NOTICE
The Supreme Council of the Abbey-Principality of San Luigi makes it known that it has endorsed the succession to the office of Prince-Abbot of San Luigi of The Most Reverend John Kersey, O.C.R., Archbishop of Great Britain in the Apostolic Episcopal Church, following the constitutional provisions established in the Declaration of Prince-Abbot Edmond I of 22 June 1954 as notarized in the City of San Francisco, California, United States of America.
The symbolic date of accession of the Prince-Abbot has been chosen as 25 August 2011, that date being the 128th anniversary of the foundation of the Abbey-Principality in 1883 and the feast-day of our Patron, St Louis.
By Letters Patent of 25 January 2012, the Prince-Abbot has been confirmed additionally as 6th Mukungu of San Luigi in the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara by H.M. the Omukama of Bunyoro-Kitara.
HIS SERENE HIGHNESS THE MOST REVEREND EDMOND III, 8th PRINCE-ABBOT OF SAN LUIGI (founded 1883, additionally confirmed by H.M. King Peter II of Yugoslavia, 1962); 6th Mukungu of the Chieftainship of the Ancient Abbey-Principality of San Luigi (Fizzan) in the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara, 1st Duke of Feuat (San Luigi, 2011); 1st Duke of Samos (Byzantium (Polanie-Patrikios), 2013); 2nd Marquis of Valjevo (Yugoslavia, 1962; confirmed San Luigi 2011); 3rd Count of Berville (San Luigi, 1929); 8th Count Palatine (San Luigi, 1883); 3rd Archbishop of San Luigi; Archbishop of Great Britain of the Apostolic Episcopal Church (The Holy Eastern Catholic and Apostolic Orthodox Church); Bishop and Rector Pro-Provincial of Canterbury of the Order of Corporate Reunion; Metropolitan Primate (Presiding Bishop) of the Ecclesia Apostolica Divinorum Mysteriorum (Church of the Divine Mysteries); Prince Grand Master of the San Luigi Orders (The Sovereign, Knightly and Noble Order of the Lion and the Black Cross (L’Ordre Souverain, Chevaleresque et Noble du Lion et de la Croix Noire), The Sovereign, Chivalrous, Noble and Religious Order of the Crown of Thorns (L’Ordre Souverain, Chevaleresque, Nobilaire et Religieux de la Couronne d’Epines)), and Superior-General of The Order of Antioch; President of Le Grand Prix Humanitaire de France et des Colonies; Archbishop-Abbot of the Valiant Order of St John the Baptist; Grand President of the Order of Ave Maria; Prelate-Superior of the Order of S. Teresa – The Little Flower; Protector of the Protectorate of San Luigi and Prelate – Knight Grand Cross of Justice, Orthodox Order of St John Knights Hospitaller; Protector of the Protectorate of San Luigi and Grand Cross Chaplain, Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem; Knight Commander, International Knightly Order of St George; Knight of the Holy and Blessed Order of the Sacred Cup; Honorary Colonel, Grand Star, Medal of the Anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Hungarian National Guard (1956 foundation); Freeman of the City of London and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians; Doctor Christianissimus; b. London, 10 Dec. 1972; suc. (as Prince-Abbot) by determination of the succession in his favour by Supreme Council, 25 August 2011; (as Mukungu) by determination of the succession in his favour by H.M. the Omukama of Bunyoro-Kitara, 25 Jan. 2012; deac. 10 Jun. 2006 pr. 8 July 2006 bp. 29 July 2006 (s.c.) 11 Nov 2006; 23 Nov. 2008.
Arms: Party per pale. 1st: party per fess 1: azure, the device of the Abbey-Principality of San Luigi from its foundation in 1883 2: gules, a double-headed eagle sable. 2nd: A pelican in her piety or upon a nest azure containing three young or, chaussé reversed vert charged dexter with the arms of the Apostolic Episcopal Church and sinister with the arms of the Order of Corporate Reunion.
The arms are completed with the customary external ornaments of rank: a gold primatial cross placed in back of and extending above and below the shield; the mitre and crozier; the shield is surmounted by a princely crown. Behind the shield is the cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller. Pendant from the shield is the insignia of the Order of the Crown of Thorns, the Order of the Lion and the Black Cross, and the Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem. Also displayed are the insignia of the Confraternitas Oecumenica Sancti Sepulcri Hierosolymitani and the Grand Prix Humanitaire de France et des Colonies.
The red galero proper to a Metropolitan of de jure Cardinal rank, surmounts the arms, bearing fifteen tassels in five rows on either side of the shield. The arms are displayed on a mantle surmounted with a coronet. The motto is “Amor omnia vincit” – Love conquers all.
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DUKEDOM OF FEUAT
The concession of the title of Duke of Feuat has been announced in favour of the present Prince-Abbot, who will hold this dignity as a subsidiary title during his tenure of the position of Prince-Abbot. The title is hereditary and is granted with remainder to the heirs male of his body.
MARQUISATE OF VALJEVO
The Marquisate of Valjevo was conceded in favour of Prince-Abbot Edmond II by King Peter II of Yugoslavia in 1962 in Letters Patent of 22 March 1962. The remainder of Royal Yugoslav titles is to heirs male of the body of the grantee or by adoption. The recognition of the title of Prince de San Luigi in the same Letters Patent indicates that the two titles were intended to be conjoined, and that descent by adoption in this case would thus include the normal process of the descent of the Princely title by nomination or election. In keeping with the usual practice and considering the fact that the Royal Yugoslav Crown is currently in abeyance (its heir having reduced his claim to the crown of Serbia only) the concession of the Marquisate of Valjevo has additionally been announced within the Abbey-Principality of San Luigi itself, to be held by the Prince-Abbot and his successors as a subsidiary title, and with the precedence of the Royal Yugoslav title.
NOTICE
The Supreme Council by this Notice declares that all bodies corporate, whether in the United States of America or elsewhere, that have been previously formed with the intention of holding funds or property on behalf of the Abbey-Principality are hereby voided and that no such body corporate may be held to represent the Abbey-Principality in any manner whatsoever.
The Abbey-Principality of San Luigi 
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