Titular Archbishop
Which position did Henri Streicher hold after Sep 1933?
Henri Streicher Henri Streicher ( 29 July 1863 – 7 June 1952 ) was a Roman Catholic missionary bishop who served as Vicar Apostolic of Uganda from 1897 to 1933 . Early years . Henri Streicher was born on 29 July 1863 in Wasselonne , France . On 23 September 1887 he was ordained a Priest of the White Fathers ( Society of the Missionaries of Africa ) . For two years he taught Church History and Bible at the Greek Melchite Seminary in Jerusalem . After that he taught Systematic Theology at the White Fathers scholasticate at Carthage for a year . Missionary . In 1890 Streicher was appointed to the Apostolic Vicariate of Victoria Nyanza led by Bishop John Joseph Hirth , which he reached in 1891 . He was assigned to Buddu in the south of the Buganda kingdom . In 1892 there was a civil war in Uganda , during which the supporters of the Catholics had to move to Buddu . Soon after the fighting ended Streicher established the Villa Maria mission ( near Masaka ) . Victoria Nyanza was divided into three parts in 1894 . Hirth took the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Nyanza , the English Mill Hill Missionaries took the eastern part , called the Apostolic Vicariate of Upper Nile , and Bishop Antonin Guillermain took the western part , called the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Nyanza . In 1896 Guillermain died of a viral hemorrhagic fever . The next year Streicher , acting as head of the Roman Catholic mission since his death , was appointed his successor . Bishop . On 1 February 1897 Streicher was appointed Titular Bishop of Thabraca and Vicar Apostolic of Northern Victoria Nyanza in what is now Uganda . He decided that he would not return to Europe to be consecrated , and was ordained on 15 August 1897 in the small church of Kamoga at Bukumbi ( in what is now Tanzania ) by Bishop John Joseph Hirth assisted by two priests . He made his headquarters at Villa Maria . His vicariate included all of the south and west of modern Uganda , and included 30,000 baptized Christians when he became Apostolic Vicar . Bishop Guillermain had already begun to evangelize the Nyoro and Toro kingdoms in the west of the country . Streicher began missionary activity in Ankole in 1902 , and in Kigezi twenty years later . He was authoritarian , using his diocesan synods to present decisions rather than encouraging debate . The chiefs who had converted to Catholicism moved to Buddu , and treated him as both civil and religious leader , equivalent to a king . Streicher assumed some of the royal trappings in his costume . The chiefs sent their sons to be his pages at his court , and they ensured that their followers were converted by the Ganda catechists . Streicher was a strong believer in education and set up schools throughout his territory . He founded a training college for catechists in 1902 . He required that students know the alphabet before being admitted to the catechumenate , and that they were literate before they could be baptized . Until 1916 he resisted allowing English to be used in his schools , thinking that would encourage his students to engage in worldly pursuits . The result was that the Catholics became disadvantaged compared to Protestants in English-administered Uganda . Streicher did allow English in St . Marys Lubaga , founded in 1906 for the sons of chiefs . He saw Catholic teaching orders as a potential threat to his authority , and did not allow them to enter the diocese until 1924 , when the Canadian Brothers of Christian Instruction of Ploermel were permitted to launch St . Marys College Kisubi and to open other schools . Streicher consider that training indigenous priests was the first priority , more important than conversion of the people . He inherited the seminary at Kisubi , later moved to Bukalasa , near to Villa Maria . In 1911 the senior seminarians moved to Katigondo . In 1913 Streicher ordained the first two African priests of the colonial era . In 1913 and 1914 Streicher headed a commission charged with assembling the testimonials needed to beatify the Uganda Martyrs . World War I seriously affected the mission , with 31 of the 63 priests who could travel being recalled to France , and with subsidies cut off . On 15 Jan 1915 his Vicariate Apostolic was as Vicariate Apostolic of Uganda and he remained at his post until his resignation on 2 June 1933 . In May 1920 he assisted at the solemn beatification ceremony of the Uganda Martyrs in Rome . Streicher pushed hard to prepare for the diocese to become autonomous from European assistance , causing resentment from missionaries who felt that more time was needed . Legacy . Streicher resigned in 1933 and became Titular Archbishop . By then his vicariate had 303,000 baptized Christians . His mission was separated into the vicariates of Rubaga and Masaka . After resigning he was appointed titular archbishop of Brysis . The future diocese that he left at his retirement was far in advance of any other at that time . In 1939 he assisted Pope Pius XII at the consecration of Joseph Kiwánuka in St Peters , Rome . Kiwanuka , who was the first African bishop since the days of the early church , became Vicar Apostolic of Masaka . Streicher made his home in Ibanda . On 7 June 1952 he received the last rites from Bishop Kiwanuka before his death . He was interred in his church that he had built at Villa Maria . He was described by Cardinal Costantini as the greatest missionary of the twentieth century .