Frédéric Rubwejanga

Bishop Frédéric Rubwejanga O.C.S.O., (born 1931) is a Rwandan Roman Catholic prelate who was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kibungo, Rwanda from 1992 until 2007. He was appointed bishop by Pope John Paul II on 30 March 1992. He was consecrated and installed there on 5 July 1992. He retired as bishop on 28 August 2007. He lives on as Bishop Emeritus of Kibungo, Rwanda. While in retirement, he became a member of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO).

Background and education He was born in 1931 in Nyabinyenga Village, Cyabakamyi Sector, Nyanza District, Southern Province, Rwanda. He studied philosophy and theology, before he was ordained a priest in September 1959.

He is reported to hold an advanced degree in spiritual theology from the Catholic University of Louvain awarded in 1990.

Priest On 20 September 1959 he was ordained a priest at Nyabinyenga, in the Apostolic Vicariate of Kabgayi. He served in that capacity until March 1992.

While in retirement as Bishop Emeritus of Kibungo, Rwanda, Bishop Frédéric Rubwejanga, took vows professing to be a member of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, (O.C.S.O.), on 1 November 2010, when he was three months shy of 80 years of age.