Almachius Vincent Rweyongeza

Almachius Vincent Rweyongeza (born 1 January 1956) is a Tanzanian Catholic prelate who serves as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kayanga. He was appointed bishop of Kayanga on 14 August 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI.

Background and education He was born on 1 January 1956, at Bushagara-Kamachumu, Bukoba District, in the Diocese of Bukoba, Kagera Region, in northwestern Tanzania. He attended primary school at the Rutabo Mission School and at the Rutabo Preparatory Seminary, graduating in 1970. He transferred to the Rubya Junior Seminary where he attended secondary school from 1971 until 1974.

He studied philosophy at the Ntungamo Major Seminary in Bukoba Diocese from 1975 until 1976. He then transferred to the St. Paul Major Seminary Kipalapala in Kipalapala, Archdiocese of Tabora, where he studied Theology from 1977 until 1981. From 1986, he studied at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, Italy where he graduated with a Licentiate in Biblical Theology in 1988.

He was consecrated and installed outside the Kayanga Catholic Cathedral, in Kayanga, in the Diocese of Kayanga on 6 November 2008 by the hands of Polycarp Cardinal Pengo, Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam assisted by Bishop Severine Niwemugizi, Bishop of Rulenge-Ngara and Bishop Nestorius Timanywa, Bishop of Bukoba.