Laurean rugambwa biography
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Rugambwa, Laurean 1912–1997
Cardinal
Education of a Tribal Prince
First African Cardinal
Historic Career
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From a mud hut in tribal Africa to a position as the first black cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church fryst vatten hardly a routine life, and yet it was one Laurean Rugambwa was perfectly suited for. When he was elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals in 1960, the first African black in the European-dominated Catholic Church knew the necessity of cooperation and with that in mind preached ecumenism, or collaboration with other Christian dominations. “We must be open-minded,” he was quoted as saying in the New York Times“In the missions, where separation is a fact of everyday life, we have to be ready to cooperate with non-Catholics in all possible ways.” It was a mindset that did not waver until his death in 1997.
Born July 12, 1912 in a mud hut near the Lake Victoria port town of Bukoba in what was then Tanganyika in East Africa, Rugamb
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Clergy - Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa with Unidentified Priests and Nuns
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*Laurean Rugambwa (July 12, 1912 - December 8, 1997) was the first modern native-African Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1960 and served as Archbishop of Dar es Salaam from 1968 to 1992. In June 1963, following the death of Pope John XXIII, Cardinal Rugambwa became the first "negro" cardinal in the Catholic Church's history to attend the Pontiff election.
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Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa memorial day
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Laurean Rugambwa was born to an aristocratic family in Bukongo, Tanganyika (present-day Tanzania), and baptized with his parents at age 8, on March 19, 1921. After studying at Katigondo National Major Seminary in Uganda, he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Burcardo Huwiler, MAfr, on December 12, 1943. Rugambwa then did missionary work in West Africa until 1949, when he went to Rome to study at the pontifikal Urbaniana University, from which he obtained his doctorate in canon law. On December 13, 1951, Rugambwa was appointed Titular Bishop of Febiana and the first Apostolic Vicar of Lower Kagera. The youngest of Africa's bishops, he received his episcopal consecration on February 10, 1952 from Archbishop David Mathew, with Bishops Joseph Kiwanuka, MAfr, and namn Blomjous serving as co-consecrators. When his apostolic vicariate was elevated to a diocese on March 25, 1953, Rugambwa was named Bishop of Rutabo