Yona Okoth

{{Short description|Ugandan Anglican archbishop}}

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Yona Okoth (1926–2001) was an Anglican archbishop in Uganda.[https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1025101/hundreds-mourn-archbishop-yona-okoth New Vision]

Okoth was born in Maundo Village,Nagongera,Tororo District Eastern Uganda and was educated at Buwalasi Theological College;[https://episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=83207 Episcopal Archives website, Okoth to Succeed as Ugandan Archbishop, article dated November 10, 1983] he was ordained a priest in 1955 and attended St. Augustine College, Canterbury, England in 1963, where he graduated with a diploma in theology. In 1966, he studied at Wycliffe College at Toronto University, Canada, where he received a Licentiate in Theology.

He served in Mbale diocese (where he was Diocesan Treasurer) and was appointed Provincial Secretary of the then Church of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-Zaire in 1965. He was also Provincial Secretary of the Anglican Church of Uganda from 1965 to 1972 when he was appointed Bishop of Bukedi.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975/6 p861: London; OUP; 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}

In 1977, he left Uganda and went into self-exile to the United States out of frustration during the rule of dictator Idi Amin; during this time, he read for a Doctor of Divinity degree at Wycliffe College.

He was consecrated archbishop of Uganda[https://primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/archives-of-the-church-of-uganda/archbishop-of-uganda/general-file Archives of the Anglican Church of Uganda] in 1984 and was in office until 1995.