HISTORIA FUPI YA PAROKIA YA SAHWA- MTAKATIFU BARTHOLOMEO
Archbishop Renatus Leonard Nkwande was born in Mantare, Mwanza - Tanzania on November 12, 1965, is the Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mwanza in Tanzania since May 12, 2019
He attended primary school in Sumve. In 1981 he joined the Seminary of St. Mary’s Nyegezi.
In 1987 he went to Kibosho Seminary in Moshi Catholic Diocese and in 1989 he studied theology at St. Charles Lwanga Seminary in Dar es Salaam.
On July 2, 1995 he was ordained a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Mwanza. He studied in Rome the Laws of the Church at the Pontifical University of Urbaniana between the years 2002-2005.
On February 11, 2019, Bishop Nkwande was appointed Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mwanza and resumed official duties on May 12, 2019.
MHASHAMU BABA ASKOFU MKUU ANATUALIKA
Tarehe 05/10/2023 ilifanyaka harambee kwa ajili ya ujenzi wa Kanisa Kuu la Jimbo Kuu la Mwanza (St. John Paul II)
Chancellor wa Jimbo kuu la Mwanza Pd. G. Kabomo ashiriki mbio za Loreto Fun Run 2023.
Kuelekea Maadhimisho ya jubilei ya miaka 25 ya Parokia ya Mt. Fransisko wa Asizi Butimba
