{"id":4555,"date":"2025-02-19T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicans.app\/burundi-two-new-bishops-for-rutana-and-bubanza\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T17:27:34","slug":"burundi-two-new-bishops-for-rutana-and-bubanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicains.ca\/en\/burundi-two-new-bishops-for-rutana-and-bubanza\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi: Two New Bishops for Rutana and Bubanza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Pope has appointed two new bishops in Burundi: Abb\u00e9 L\u00e9onidas Nitereka as head of the Diocese of Rutana and Dominican Father Emmanuel Ntakarutimana for the Diocese of Bubanza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Journey of Bishop Emmanuel Ntakarutimana, O.P.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Religious Commitment \u2013 Order of Preachers (Dominicans)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>First profession<\/strong>: September 28, 1981, in Ibadan, Nigeria.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Perpetual vows<\/strong>: 1984 in Rweza, Burundi.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Priestly ordination<\/strong>: August 23, 1987, in Gitega<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Responsibilities Held<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1986-1989<\/strong>: Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Grand Seminary of Gitega.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1988-1990<\/strong>: Secretary of the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1991-1993<\/strong>: Master of Students at the Inter-African Dominican House of Formation in Kinshasa.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1993-1999<\/strong>: Advisor to the Superior and Coordinator for Africa of the Dominican Order.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2001-2015<\/strong>: Coordinator of the Ubuntu Center for the Promotion of Peace and Reconciliation in Bujumbura.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015-2021<\/strong>: Director of the Episcopal Conference Bureau for Evangelization.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Since 2021<\/strong>: Coordinator of the Council for the Creation of the Catholic University of Burundi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope has appointed two new bishops in Burundi: Abb\u00e9 L\u00e9onidas Nitereka as head of the Diocese of Rutana and Dominican Father Emmanuel Ntakarutimana for the Diocese of Bubanza. Journey of Bishop Emmanuel Ntakarutimana, O.P. Religious Commitment \u2013 Order of Preachers (Dominicans) Responsibilities Held<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicains.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicains.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicains.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicains.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicains.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dominicains.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4573,"href":"https:\/\/dominicains.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/4573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicains.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicains.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicains.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicains.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}