James Hamupanda Kauluma

James Hamupanda Kauluma (c1933-2007) was the sixth Anglican bishop of Namibia.

Biography

Born in Ovamboland in about 1933, he was educated at St Mary's, Odibo, and baptised in 1951. He studied at the Dorothea Mission in Johannesburg between 1958-1959, and in Kenya, before returning to Namibia in 1964. In 1965 he travelled to Canada and the USA for further study, graduating with a BA degree from the University of Toronto and an MA from New York University. He was made a deacon in 1975 and ordained as an Anglican priest by Bishop Colin O'Brien Winter (who was then in exile), in 1977.

He was elected Suffragan Bishop of Damaraland in 1977, and was consecrated as such in Westminster Abbey, London, on 15 January 1978 by Bishop Edward George Knapp-Fisher, acting under commission from the Archbishop of Cape Town, assisted by the Bishop of Damaraland, the Assistant Bishop of Damaraland, and others.

He returned to live in Namibia in 1978, after having lived abroad for 12 years. After the death of Bishop Winter in 1981 he was elected diocesan bishop, the first Namibian to hold that office.

Bibliography

Pütz, Joachim, von Egidy, Heidi & Caplan, Perri. 1990. "Namibia handbook and political who's who", 2nd ed. Windhoek: Magus. ISBN 0-620-14172-7"Church of the Province of Southern Africa Clerical Directory, 1991/1992", p. 222.Bishopscourt Archives, "Consecration of Bishops, 1847-1986".