Rutabo
Mission in Kagera, Tanzania
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Rutabo is the location of a Catholic mission in German East Africa, to the south of Bukoba in what is now Tanzania.
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| Coordinates: 1.56667°S 31.61667°E | |
| Country | Tanzania |
| Region | Kagera |
In 1928 the Vicar Apostolic of South Nyanza, Joseph Sweens, was saying his breviary in the church at Rutabo when it collapsed in him. He dived under a prie-dieu, and was unhurt.[1] Rutabo Diocese was founded in 1952 under Bishop Laurean Rugambwa, and had its preparatory seminary at Rutabo.[2] On 31 March 1960 Pope John XXIII made Rugambwa the first Sub-Saharan African Cardinal of the Catholic Church.[3] A 1960 sketch of the cardinal described his cathedral church of Rutaba as a makeshift structure with a roof of corrugated iron, but his diocese contained 61,000 members of his faith.[4] In 1960 the Bunena preparatory seminary was transferred to Rutabo.[5]
