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Thursday, May 22, 2014
LIFE OF BISHOP LAUREAN RUGAMBWA.
Bishop Laurean Rugambwa was born to an aristocratic family in Bukongo found Kamachumu(Rutabo Parish) Tanzania, and baptized with his parents at age 8, on March 19, 1921. After studying at the Regional Grand Seminary of Katigondo in Uganda, he was ordaineted to the priesthood by Bishop Burcardo Huwiler, MAfr, on December 12, 1943. Rugambwa then did missionary work in West Africa up to 1949, when he went to Rome to study at the Pontifical Urbaniana University, from where he obtained his doctorate in Canon Law.
On December 13, 1951,Bishop Rugambwa was appointed by Titular Bishop on December 13,1951 of Febiana and the first Apostolic Vicar of Lower Kagera. The youngest of Africa's bishops, he received his episcopal consecration on February 10, 1952 from Archbishop David Mathew, with Bishops Joseph Kiwanuka, MAfr, and Joseph Blomjous serving as co-consecrators. Upon his Apostolic Vicariate's elevation to a dioces on March 25, 1953, Rugambwa was become Bishop of Rutabo by Pope Pius XII. Bishop Rugambwa created Cardinali Priest of S. Francesco a Ripa by Pope John XXIII in the consistory of March 28, 1960, and thus became the first native African cardinal. On the following June 21, the diocese was renamed as Bukoba.
Bishop Rugambwa attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was so pashient in implementing its reform.Also he was one of the cardinal electors in the 1963 papal conclave that selected Pope Paul VI. Advanced to Archbishop of Dar es Salaam on December 19, 1968, later on he participated in the conclaves of August and October 1978, which selected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II respectively.
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The Cardinal Rugambwa, had known Pope John Paul II from before his election, resigned as Dar es Salaam's archbishop on July 22, 1992, after twenty-three years of service, during which he founded the first Catholic hospital in Ukonga and a female Roman Catholic religious institute, the Little Sisters of St. Francis of Assi
Bishop Rugambwa died in Dar es Salaam, at age 85. He is buried in the cathedral of Bukoba diocese, his remains having been transferred from a parish church in the Kagera RegionThere is a possibility that Cardinal Rugambwa could eventually be beatified and canonized. It is well known that the Cardinal, who had enjoyed a good reputation during his life and after his death, was very close to many prominent and esteemed individuals in the Church.
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