Joseph Ruzindana

Mgr. Joseph Ruzindana
Bishop of Byumba, Rwanda
Appointed	5 November 1981
Installed	17 January 1982
Term ended	7 June 1994
Successor	Servilien Nzakamwita
Personal details
Born	(1943-06-03)3 June 1943 Rambura
Died	5 June 1994(1994-06-05) (aged 51) Kabgayi
Nationality	Swiss
Denomination	Catholic

Joseph Ruzindana (3 June 1943 - 5 June 1994) was a Catholic Bishop of Byumba in Rwanda.

Joseph Ruzindana was born on 3 June 1943 in Rambura. On 23 July 1972 he was ordained priest of Byumba. He was appointed Bishop of Byumba on 5 November 1981, and ordained on 17 January 1982. The bishopric of Byumba was newly formed through a division of the diocese of Ruhengeri.

During the Rwandan Genocide, Ruzindana was killed on 5 June 1994 by soldiers of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), along with Vincent Nsengiyumva, Archbishop of Kigali, Thaddée Nsengiyumva, Bishop of Kabgayi, and nine priests. The soldiers who killed them were their guards at Gakurazo, near the Kabgayi church center.

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