John Sentamu

John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu, Baron Sentamu, PC (/ˈsɛntəmuː/; Luganda pronunciation: [sːéːntámû]; born 10 June 1949) is a retired Anglican bishop and life peer. He was Archbishop of York and Primate of England from 2005 to 2020.

Born near Kampala in Uganda, Sentamu studied law at Makerere University before gaining employment as an advocate of the Supreme Court of Uganda. Speaking out against the regime of President Idi Amin, he was briefly imprisoned before fleeing in 1974 to the United Kingdom, where he devoted himself to Anglicanism, beginning his study of theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge, in 1976 and eventually gaining a doctorate in 1984. He studied for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1979. In 1996 he was consecrated as the area bishop of Stepney and in 2002 became Bishop of Birmingham. In 2005 he was appointed to the office of Archbishop of York.

He has also received attention for his vocal criticism of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe.

Sentamu was omitted from the first list of new peerages following his resignation as archbishop, but it was announced in December 2020 that Sentamu would be created a crossbench life peer in the second list of 2020 Political Honours.