Diocese of Bubanza, Burundi 🇧🇮

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Bubanza / Bubantin(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Bujumbura

Neighbouring Dioceses: Uvira (↙), Cyangugu (↖), Bukavu (↖), Gikongoro (↑), Ngozi (→), Bujumbura (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1980.06.07: Established as Diocese of Bubanza / Bubantin(us) (Latin) (from Diocese of Bujumbura and became suffragan of Gitega)
2006.11.25: Became suffragan of Bujumbura

Present Prelates

Bishop (2025.02.15 – ...):

Bishop Emmanuel Ntakarutimana, O.P. (69)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Bubanza (Roman Rite)

Bishop Emmanuel Ntakarutimana, O.P. (69)
(2025.02.15 – ...)

Bishop of Bubanza (Burundi)

Et veritas liberabit vos

Born:	1956.12.30 (Gitega, Burundi)
Ordained Priest:	1987.08.23
Consecrated Bishop:	2025.04.05

Bishop of Bubanza (Burundi) (2025.02.15 – ...)

Bishop Georges Bizimana (61)
(Apostolic Administrator 2023.04.01 – 2025.02.15)

Bishop Jean Ntagwarara (78)
(1997.10.24 – 2023.04.01)

Bishop emeritus of Bubanza (Burundi)

Spiritus est Deus

Born:	1947.09.22 (Bugera, Burundi)
Ordained Priest:	1976.08.15
Consecrated Bishop:	1998.02.14

Bishop of Bubanza (Burundi) (1997.10.24 – 2023.04.01)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Burundi (2004.04 – 2007.07)

Bishop Evariste Ngoyagoye (84) (later Archbishop)
(1980.06.07 – 1997.04.21)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Bujumbura (Burundi)

Servir l’amour

Born:	1942.01.03 (Jenda, Burundi)
Ordained Priest:	1966.01.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1980.08.24

Priest of Bujumbura (Burundi) (1966.01.06 – 1980.06.07)

Bishop of Bubanza (Burundi) (1980.06.07 – 1997.04.21)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Burundi (1986 – 1989)

President of Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (1990 – 2001)

Bishop of Bujumbura (Burundi) (1997.04.21 – 2006.11.25)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Bujumbura (Burundi) (2006.11.25 – 2018.03.24)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Burundi (2007.07 – 2011)

Vice-President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Burundi (2011 – 2019.12.06)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Georges Bizimana (61) (2013.12.07 – 2019.12.17)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale Christ Roi, Bubanza, Bubanza

Uvira (↙), Cyangugu (↖), Bukavu (↖), Gikongoro (↑), Ngozi (→), Bujumbura (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 2,700 km²

Population: 482,543 Catholics (55.6% of 867,393 total)

Pastoral Centres: 19 parishes

Personnel: 68 priests (diocesan), 84 religious (9 brothers, 75 sisters), 108 seminarians