PORTLAND — Cardinal Antoine Kambanda, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kigali, Rwanda, will have fun a particular Mass on Friday, June 17 at 5:30 p.m. on the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on 307 Congress Road in Portland. A reception will observe within the Cathedral’s Guild Corridor.
Cardinal Kambanda is a local of Nyamata, Rwanda, the place the Nyamata Genocide Memorial stands to mark the Rwandan genocide of 1994. All members of Cardinal Kambanda’s household had been killed within the genocide, aside from one brother.
He attended major faculties in Burundi and Uganda, then accomplished his secondary college training in Kenya, returning to Rwanda after ending his research in philosophy and two years of theology. He accomplished his theological research on the Main Seminary in Nyakibanda and was ordained a priest on September 9, 1990, by Pope Saint John Paul II on the event of his pastoral go to to Rwanda.
After his ordination, he was a professor and prefect on the minor seminary of Ndera, Kigali (1990-1993). He then pursued increased research in Rome the place he obtained his doctorate in ethical theology, residing on the Pontifical School of Saint Paul (1993-1999). He has additionally served as director of Caritas of Kigali, director of the diocesan fee for justice and peace, rector and professor of ethical theology at a seminary in Nyakibanda, religious director of a seminary in Rutongo, and rector of a seminary in Kabgayi.
On July 20, 2013, he obtained episcopal consecration, and on Nov. 19, 2018, Pope Francis appointed him Archbishop of Kigali. On Nov. 28, 2020, he was proclaimed a Cardinal by the Holy Father.
