Background
Smaragde Mbonyintege was born on 2 February 1947 in Cyeza parish, Kabgayi diocese, in the current Kayumbu Sector in Kamonyi District, Southern Province.
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He studied in the Minor Seminary of Saint Paul in Kigali.
Career
He received his primary and secondary education from church schools. He went on to the Saint Charles Borromeo Major Seminary of Nyakibanda, where he studied philosophy (1969-1972) and theology (1972-1975). He was ordained in 1975 in the Diocese of Kabgayi.
He attended the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1979 to 1983, earning an Master of Arts in Spiritual Theology.
In 1996 he was appointed Rector of the Nyakibanda Major Seminary. On 22 January 2006 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Bishop of Kabgayi, Rwanda, effective 26 March 2006.
He was succeeded as rector at the seminary by father Antoine Kambanda. In 2009 he was elected President of the Episcopal Conference of Rwanda.
