Credonia Mwerinde | |
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Born | 1952 |
Disappeared | March 17, 2000 (aged 47–48) Kanungu District, Uganda |
Nationality | Ugandan |
Occupation(s) | shopkeeper, brewer of banana beer, and prostitute |
Known for | Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God mass murders |
Credonia Mwerinde (born 1952) was the high priestess and co-founder of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), a sect that splintered from the Roman Catholic Church in Uganda. Before founding the movement she was a shopkeeper, brewer, and a prostitute. She and two other group members approached Joseph Kibweteere in 1989, and said that the Virgin Mary had instructed him to take them in; together Mwerinde and Kibweteere would found the MRTC in 1989.