Laurean Rugambwa

Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa ( born July 12, 1912 in Bukongo in Tanzania; † 8 December in Dar es Salaam, 1997 ) was Archbishop of Dar es Salaam and in 1960 the first black African cardinal.

Life

The late Cardinal was in the small town Bukongo in what was then Tanganyika in 1912 ( German East Africa, now Tanzania ) was born and baptized by a priest of the Missionary Society of the "White Fathers". He went through their mission school, studied Catholic theology and received on 12 December 1943, the sacrament of Holy Orders. 1948 Rugambwa studied in Rome at the Pontifical Collegium San Pietro Apostolo and was established in 1951 with a thesis entitled De Validitate matrimonii infidelium in Buhaya ( "On the validity of the marriage of unbelievers in Buhaya " ) at the Pontifical Urban University Dr. iur. can. doctorate.

Pius XII. appointed on 13 December 1951 until 39 -year-old titular bishop of Febiana and Vicar Apostolic of Kagera Inferiore. The episcopal ordination he received on 10 February 1952 Archbishop David Mathew.

In 1953, the Apostolic Vicariate of Kagera Inferiore was built as a diocese Rutabo canonical Rugambwa and became its first bishop. The diocese was established in 1960 in the Diocese of Bukoba, after a town on Lake Victoria, renamed. On March 28, 1960 saw Pope John XXIII. with the appointment Rugambwas cardinal priest with the titular church of San Francesco d' Assisi a Ripa Grande and first African cardinal for a real church history sensation. After the Pope's death, he took part in the conclave in 1963. From 1968 he was archbishop of the Archdiocese of Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania. In 1978 he took part in the two conclaves of August and October. The management of the Archdiocese of Dar es Salaam in 1992 he laid down.

Laurean Rugambwa died in 1997 in his former episcopal city of Dar es Salaam at the age of 85 years.

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