East Africa & Rhodesia - 15/8/57 - The Very Rev. Father J. Minderop, MBE, of the Mill Hill Mission, has died in Mbale, Uganda, at the age of 81. He walked up to Kampala from Nairobi in January 1900. During the absence in Europe of Bishop Resnick in 1947 he administered the Vicariate of the Upper Nile. Father Minderop had represented his mission on a number of public bodies in Uganda, including the local branch of the Empire Leprosy Relief Association, and he had been a visitor to Mulago Mental Hospital

Mill Hill Fathers - 3rd MHF caravan to Uganda; arr. Mumia's 20/1/1900, then posted straight to Nagalama; appt. Superior of Namilyango Mission Station 4/3/1902

He established the parish of Our Lady Mary, Lwala in the district of Kaberamaido in 1915. First headmaster of Namilyango College.