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Simon Ntamwana

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Simon Ntamwana
Archbishop of Gitega
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
ArchdioceseGitega
SeeGitega
Appointed24 January 1997
PredecessorJoachim Ruhuna
Previous post(s)Bishop of Bujumbura (1988-97)
President of the Burundi Episcopal Conference (1997-2004)
Apostolic Administrator of Bururi (2005-07)
President of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (2007-13)
Orders
Ordination24 March 1974
by Agnelo Rossi
Consecration5 February 1989
by Bernardin Gantin
Personal details
Born
Simon Ntamwana

(1946-06-03) 3 June 1946 (age 78)
Mukenke, Ruanda-Urundi
MottoCharité et Patience

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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