AFRICA/RWANDA – Appointment of new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies

Vatican City – On January 23, 2026 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization ,has appointed Father Viateur Gitongana, of the clergy of Kigali, as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Rwanda, for a five-year term .
Father Gitongana, born in 1976, completed his primary education at the Janjagiro School Complex , his secondary education at Saint Vincent de Paul Minor Seminary in Ndera , and his preparatory year at Saint Mbaaga/Kampala Grand Seminary in Uganda . He earned a licentiate in philosophy from Saint Mbaaga/Kampala Grand Seminary in Uganda , completed his pastoral internship at Saint Kizito Minor Seminary in Zaza , and received a degree in theology from Saint Mbaaga/Kampala Grand Seminary in Uganda .
Ordained a priest in the parish of Musha/Kigali in 2007, he earned a master’s degree in theology of Christian life from the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy, San Luigi-Posillipo Section, in Naples, Italy. He served as bursar of the Minor Seminary of Zaza Kibungo in Rwanda and as assistant bursar in the diocesan administration of Kibungo in Rwanda . He was general bursar of the Diocese of Kibungo , and also served as a pastoral collaborator in Naples, Italy, at the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine ; in Rwanda, at the Parish of Rwamagana ; and finally in Tivoli, Italy, at the Parish of San Gregorio Magno .

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