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.