Joseph Ruzindana

Mgr.
Joseph Ruzindana
Bishop of Byumba, Rwanda
Appointed 5 November 1981
Installed 17 January 1982
Term ended 7 June 1994
Successor Servilien Nzakamwita
Personal details
Born (1943-06-03)3 June 1943
Rambura
Died 5 June 1994(1994-06-05) (aged 51)
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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