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Philippe Rukamba
Philippe Rukamba (born 26 May 1948) is a Rwandan Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Butare, Rwanda from 1997 until his age-related retirement in 2024. Between May 2012 and November 2014, he served as the Apostolic Administrator of the Catholic Diocese of Gikongoro, in Rwanda. He was appointed bishop of Butare on 2 January 1997 by Pope John Paul II. He retired on 12 August 2024 at the age of 76 years. He lives on as the Bishop Emeritus of Butare, Rwanda. Early life and education He was born on 26 May 1948 in Kabarondo, Rwanda, Kabarondo, Kayonza District, Eastern Province, Rwanda, Eastern Province in the Diocese of Kibungo, in Rwanda. He was baptized on 29 May 1948. He studied in primary schools in Rwinkwavu, Rulindo, Rwamagana and Zaza, Rwanda, Zaza, in that order. He entered the Minor Seminary of Kabgayi in 1961. He transferred to the Saint Paul Seminary in Kigali in 1965. He began his studies at ''Nyakibanda Major Seminary'' on 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Most Reverend
The Most Reverend (abbreviated as The Most Revd or The Most Rev) is an honorific style (form of address), style given to certain (primarily Western Christian, Western) Christian clergy and Christian minister, ministers. It is a variant of the more common style "The Reverend". Catholic In the Catholic Church, two different systems may be found. In most countries, all bishops are styled "The Most Reverend", as well as monsignors of the rank of protonotary apostolic ''de numero''. In the United Kingdom, only archbishops bear the style "The Most Reverend", with other bishops styled "The Right Reverend". By custom, this title is used for the Minister general, ministers general of the various branches of the Order of Friars Minor as well as of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis. Eastern Orthodox In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox tradition, archbishops under the Ecumenical Patriarchate (those who are not the Primate (bishop), primates of autocephalous churches) and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rwinkwavu
Rwinkwavu (Kinyarwanda: Umurenge wa Rwinkwavu) is one of the 12 sectors in the district of Kayonza in the Eastern Province of Rwanda. Geography Rwinkwavu sector covers an area of 92.32 km2 and lies at an altitude of about 1,430 m. The sector is divided into the cells Gihinga, Mbarara Mbarara City is a city in the Western Region, Uganda, Western Region of Uganda and the second largest city in Uganda after Kampala. The city is divided into 6 boroughs of Kakoba Division, Kamukuzi Division, Nyamitanga Division, Biharwe Division, ..., Mukoyoyo and Nkondo. It borders Mwiri to the north, Kabare to the east, Murama to the south, Kabarondo to the southwest and Nyamirama to the west. Demographics The census in 2022 put the population at 36,774. Ten years earlier, it was 28,225, which corresponds to an annual population increase of 2.7 percent between 2012 and 2022. Transport National Road 25 runs through the eastern half of the sector. A district road br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Eastern Province, Rwanda
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rwandan Roman Catholics
Rwandan or Rwandese may refer to: * Related to, from, or connected to Rwanda, a country in Africa * Banyarwanda, inhabitants of the country Rwanda and those of Rwandan ethnicity. * Kinyarwanda, the language of the Banyarwanda, sometimes known as the Rwandan language. See also * Rwandan cuisine * Rwandan music * Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Gre ... {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1948 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) go into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – British rule in Burma, Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the 'Post-independence Burma (1948–1962), Union of Burma', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 – In the United States: ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Church In Rwanda
The Catholic Church in Rwanda is part of the worldwide Catholic Church. There are just over five million Catholics in Rwanda - about half of the total population. The country is divided into nine dioceses including one archdiocese. The Rwandan government reported in 2012 that 43% of the Rwanda's population is Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid .... In 2020, there were 939 priest and 2219 nuns serving across 205 parishes. History On November 20, 2016, the Catholic Church in Rwanda released a statement apologizing for the role of its members in the genocide in 1994. "We apologize for all the wrongs the church committed. We apologize on behalf of all Christians for all forms of wrongs we committed. We regret that church members violated (their) oath of allegi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Conference Of Rwanda
The Episcopal Conference of Rwanda ({{langx, fr, Conférence Episcopal du Rwanda, italics=yes, CER), established on June 6, 1980, is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in Rwanda. The conference is a member of the ''Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa'' (ACEAC) and Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM). Presidents List of presidents of the Bishops' Conference: 1980–1983: Vincent Nsengiyumva, Archbishop of Archdiocese of Kigali 1983–1991: Joseph Ruzindana, Bishop of Diocese of Byumba 1991–1994: Vincent Nsengiyumva, Archbishop of Kigali 1994–2003: Thaddée Ntihinyurwa, Archbishop of Kigali 2003–2010: Alexis Habiyambere, Bishop of Nyundo 2010–2015: Smaragde Mbonyintege, Bishop of Diocese of Kabgayi 2015–2020: Philippe Rukamba, Bishop of Diocese of Butare 2020– : Antoine Cardinal Kambanda, Archbishop of Kigali. External links * http://www.eglisecatholiquerwanda.org/ * http://www.gcatholic.org/d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Rubwejanga
Bishop Frédéric Rubwejanga O.C.S.O., (born 1931), is a Rwandan Roman Catholic prelate who was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kibungo, Rwanda from 1992 until 2007. He was appointed bishop by Pope John Paul II on 30 March 1992. He was consecrated and installed there on 5 July 1992. He retired as bishop on 28 August 2007. He lives on as Bishop Emeritus of Kibungo, Rwanda. While in retirement, he became a member of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO). Background and education He was born in 1931 in Nyabinyenga Village, Cyabakamyi Sector, Nyanza District, Southern Province, Rwanda. He studied philosophy and theology, before he was ordained a priest in September 1959. He is reported to hold an advanced degree in spiritual theology from the Catholic University of Louvain awarded in 1990. Priest On 20 September 1959 he was ordained a priest at Nyabinyenga, in the Apostolic Vicariate of Kabgayi. He served in that capacity until March 1992. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butare
Butare (), also known as Huye and formerly known as Astrida, is a city with a population of 62,823 (2022 census) in the Southern Province of Rwanda and the capital of Huye district. It is the seventh largest town in Rwanda by population. History The Belgian colonial rulers established it in the 1920s and named the city ''Astrida'', in honour of Queen Astrid of the Belgians. The government of Rwanda changed the name of the city when it gained independence in 1962. Climate Education The University of Rwanda Butare campus was founded in 2013. Before that, the Butare campus went by the name of National University of Rwanda subsequent its foundation in 1963. Due to the large number of university students and student-centered activities in the city, Butare is often regarded as a university city. It also held the Nyakibanda Seminary and the Rwandan National Institute of Scientific Research. The city of Butare has long been regarded as the intellectual capital of the country, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theology
Theology is the study of religious belief from a Religion, religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an Discipline (academia), academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the supernatural, but also deals with religious epistemology, asks and seeks to answer the question of revelation. Revelation pertains to the acceptance of God, gods, or deity, deities, as not only transcendent or above the natural world, but also willing and able to interact with the natural world and to reveal themselves to humankind. Theologians use various forms of analysis and argument (Spirituality, experiential, philosophy, philosophical, ethnography, ethnographic, history, historical, and others) to help understanding, understand, explanation, explain, test, critique, defend or promote any myriad of List of religious topics, religious topics. As in philosophy of ethics and case law, arguments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its methods and assumptions. Historically, many of the individual sciences, such as physics and psychology, formed part of philosophy. However, they are considered separate academic disciplines in the modern sense of the term. Influential traditions in the history of philosophy include Western philosophy, Western, Islamic philosophy, Arabic–Persian, Indian philosophy, Indian, and Chinese philosophy. Western philosophy originated in Ancient Greece and covers a wide area of philosophical subfields. A central topic in Arabic–Persian philosophy is the relation between reason and revelation. Indian philosophy combines the Spirituality, spiritual problem of how to reach Enlightenment in Buddhism, enlighten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
