Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Vincent Nsengiyumva (February 10, 1936 – June 7, 1994) was a Rwandan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Kigali from 1976 until his death.Born in Rwaza, he was ordained to the priesthood on June 18, 1966.On December 17, 1973, Nsengiyumva was appointed Bishop of Nyundo by Pope Paul VI, replacing Aloys Bigirumwami, who had resigned. He received his episcopal consecration on June 2, 1974 from Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa, with Bishop Aloys Bigirumwami and Archbishop André Perraudin, MAfr, serving as co-consecrators. He was later named the first Archbishop of Kigali on April 10, 1976.Within the Rwandan government, Nsengiyumva served as chairman of the ruling party's central committee for fourteen years until the Vatican intervened in 1990. He was also a friend of Juvenal Habyarimana, whose portrait pin he wore while saying Mass, and the personal confessor of his wife, Agathe.Himself a Hutu, the Archbishop blamed Tutsi rebels for provoking the Rwandan Genocide, which he once attempted to justify as a means of ensuring democratic majority rule. He also provided the names of Tutsi clergy to the Interahamwe.At age 58, he was murdered near the Kabgayi church center with two bishops and thirteen priests by Tutsi rebels who were said to have believed the prelates were involved with the killing of their families."@en }
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- Vincent_Nsengiyumva abstract "Vincent Nsengiyumva (February 10, 1936 – June 7, 1994) was a Rwandan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Kigali from 1976 until his death.Born in Rwaza, he was ordained to the priesthood on June 18, 1966.On December 17, 1973, Nsengiyumva was appointed Bishop of Nyundo by Pope Paul VI, replacing Aloys Bigirumwami, who had resigned. He received his episcopal consecration on June 2, 1974 from Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa, with Bishop Aloys Bigirumwami and Archbishop André Perraudin, MAfr, serving as co-consecrators. He was later named the first Archbishop of Kigali on April 10, 1976.Within the Rwandan government, Nsengiyumva served as chairman of the ruling party's central committee for fourteen years until the Vatican intervened in 1990. He was also a friend of Juvenal Habyarimana, whose portrait pin he wore while saying Mass, and the personal confessor of his wife, Agathe.Himself a Hutu, the Archbishop blamed Tutsi rebels for provoking the Rwandan Genocide, which he once attempted to justify as a means of ensuring democratic majority rule. He also provided the names of Tutsi clergy to the Interahamwe.At age 58, he was murdered near the Kabgayi church center with two bishops and thirteen priests by Tutsi rebels who were said to have believed the prelates were involved with the killing of their families.".
- Q3559773 abstract "Vincent Nsengiyumva (February 10, 1936 – June 7, 1994) was a Rwandan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Kigali from 1976 until his death.Born in Rwaza, he was ordained to the priesthood on June 18, 1966.On December 17, 1973, Nsengiyumva was appointed Bishop of Nyundo by Pope Paul VI, replacing Aloys Bigirumwami, who had resigned. He received his episcopal consecration on June 2, 1974 from Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa, with Bishop Aloys Bigirumwami and Archbishop André Perraudin, MAfr, serving as co-consecrators. He was later named the first Archbishop of Kigali on April 10, 1976.Within the Rwandan government, Nsengiyumva served as chairman of the ruling party's central committee for fourteen years until the Vatican intervened in 1990. He was also a friend of Juvenal Habyarimana, whose portrait pin he wore while saying Mass, and the personal confessor of his wife, Agathe.Himself a Hutu, the Archbishop blamed Tutsi rebels for provoking the Rwandan Genocide, which he once attempted to justify as a means of ensuring democratic majority rule. He also provided the names of Tutsi clergy to the Interahamwe.At age 58, he was murdered near the Kabgayi church center with two bishops and thirteen priests by Tutsi rebels who were said to have believed the prelates were involved with the killing of their families.".