His Eminence the Most Reverend Nektarios whose name in the world was ( Lubega Leonard), born on 3rd May 1973, to Mr. Bernard Sseguya, and  Veronica Machumi of Buwala Village, Bbanda town council, Busujju county in Mityana District is a ruling Bishop of the Holy Orthodox Church of Uganda and Exarch of Africa which is in full communion with the mother Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece.
After completion of Primary and High School, in 1992, He joined the Roman Catholic religious congregation of Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga (Bannakalori Brothers), located at Kiteredde in now Kyotera District and professed as a Monk on 6th January 1996 with the vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty before the Right Reverend Bishop John Baptist Kaggwa, Bishop of Masaka Diocese.
His Eminence is a graduate of Urbaniana Pontifical University in Rome, Central Institute Ambala City, India, St. Paul Orthodox Seminary, Namungoona Kampala, Uganda Christian University, Mukono, Makerere University, Kampala.
 He has a Bachelor of Philosophy and religious sciences, Bachelor of Theology, Post graduate Diploma in Educational Administration/ Education,  Master of Education Administration and Planning, a Master of Science in Clinical Counselling Psychology, and holds a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biblical Counselling, obtained in

2008 at Therapon University on St. Thomas Island (one of the Virgin Islands in the U.S.A.) and has been awarded with several honorary doctorates (honoris Causa) from different Universities for his notable exception in social, academic, educational and spiritual services.
He is a former academic Registrar at Fairland University in Jinja, former lecturer at St. Paul Orthodox seminary Namungoona-kampala, as well as chairman ecclesiastical/spiritual court of Uganda Orthodox church under the Patriarchate of Alexandria and member of inter-religious council of Uganda on peace and confilict committee whose responsibilities was held until he left, he was a Senior Lecturer at Kampala International University, St. Lawrence University, Lubaga-mengo, Kampala.

He is currently the chairperson of University Council- Team University, Chairperson Board of Directors of St.Gregory Palamas Orthodox Schools, as well as St. Nektarios Orthodox College and Seminary. On 18th November 2002, he was ordained to the Diaconate, and the following year, on 1st June 2003, ordained to the Holy priesthood by His Eminence Metropoliatan Jonah Lwanga of the blessed memory.
Uganda, being predominantly Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Muslims and as a newly ordained priest, he converted many to orthodoxy and established many churches. On 7/20th September 2020, he was consecrated to the Holy Episcopacy at the Cathedral of Dormition Skete in Buena Vista, Colorado, in the United States of America.

By the grace of God, on the 25/6th of February 2024, feast of St. Gregory the Theologian, His Eminence the most Reverend Nektarios was consecrated sub-conditionale at the holy Monastery of twelve Apostles in Athens- Greece by His Beatitude Archbishop Markarios of Athens and all Greece and all their Eminences, the Metropolitans and their Graces the Bishops laid unto him their holy hands on to receive validity of apostolic succession. On the same day, during the synod at the Monastery of the Holy Belt in Peristari in the Athens – Hellenic Republic, His Eminence Vladyka Nektarios was appointed Exarch of Africa.

On every November 9/22nd is a feast day for His Eminence Nektarios. 

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