About Simon Ntamwana
Born 1946. Simon Ntamwana is a Burundian catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Simon Ntamwana (born 3 June 1946) has been the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Gitega in Burundi since 1997. Ntamwana was ordained as a priest on 24 March 1974 and from 1988 to 1997 he was the bishop of the diocese in Bujumbura. In 1997 he succeeded Joachim Ruhuna as the archbishop of Gitega.
In 2009, he defended Pope Benedict XVI over a controversy on the refusal to give any kind of approval to condoms in the fight against AIDS.
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Catholic archbishop
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Simon Ntamwana was born on 3 June 1946 in Mukenke.
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Simon Ntamwana is a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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Simon Ntamwana is Burundian.
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