Joseph Ruzindana
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Mgr. Joseph Ruzindana |
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Bishop of Byumba, Rwanda | |
Appointed | 5 November 1981 |
Installed | 17 January 1982 |
Term ended | 7 June 1994 |
Successor | Servilien Nzakamwita |
Personal details | |
Born | Rambura |
3 June 1943
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Kabgayi |
Nationality | Swiss |
Denomination | Catholic |
Joseph Ruzindana (3 June 1943 - 5 June 1994) was a Catholic Bishop of Byumba in Rwanda.
Joseph Ruzindana was born on 3 June 1943 in Rambura. On 23 July 1972 he was ordained priest of Byumba. He was appointed Bishop of Byumba on 5 November 1981, and ordained on 17 January 1982.[1] The bishopric of Byumba was newly formed through a division of the diocese of Ruhengeri.[2]
During the Rwandan Genocide, Ruzindana was killed on 5 June 1994 by soldiers of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), along with Vincent Nsengiyumva, Archbishop of Kigali, Thaddée Nsengiyumva, Bishop of Kabgayi, and nine priests.[3] The soldiers who killed them were their guards at Gakurazo, near the Kabgayi church center.[4][5]
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- ↑ Cheney 2012.
- ↑ Linden & Linden 1999, p. 392.
- ↑ Muhoozi 2011, p. 287.
- ↑ Lewis 1994.
- ↑ Desouter 2007, p. 90.
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