Hon Dr. Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere he was born on 11th Febuary 1932 in Bumangi at Bumangi Catholic Mission in Ssese Islands (Kalangala District) to Joseph Bagenda Kapere a fisher man and Maria Lwiza Namwendero a home maker. He was the last born of all eight children now all deceased. His was abnormal presentation birth; the Catholic Parish Priest Pere Becce helped deliver him. That began his association with the Catholic Church.

in 1933 his Father was afflicted with terminal illness and treated at Kisubi Mission Hospital. Unfortunately he passed a way in August 1933and he was buried on the Feast of Assumption at Bumangi Mission Cementery. Their Mother Maria Lwiza Namwendero made a decision to return to the Catholic White Sisters in Kisubi and ask for work as a domestic cook to take care of her young children.

The White Sisters asked her to bring her entire family. The eldest son Philip who was in his early teen years  completed vernacular education at St. John’s Kisubi Boys, which Ssemogerere later joined to assist his Mother, Philip was trained as a medical orderly and quickly rose in ranks at the hospital.He and his Sister Theresa Nabatanzi (later Mrs Mpinga) joined the mission schools at St. Theresa and St. John’s.a