 He attended Kalungu Primary School and then Villa Maria Primary School, before joining Bukalasa Seminary.Ssentongo then joined Katigondo Major Seminary for one and half years before he was offered a scholarship to Urbana University in Rome, Italy in 1957.On 21 December 1963, he was ordained a priest by Cardinal Grégoire-Pierre XV (François) Agagianian†, Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola.