Emmanuel Mbona Kolini was born on Belgian Congo, 1945 and is a Congolese-Rwandan Anglican bishop.
15 Facts About Emmanuel Kolini
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Emmanuel Kolini was the second Primate of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda, named Anglican Church of Rwanda in 2019, from 1998 to 2011.
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Emmanuel Kolini is married and a father of eight children.
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Emmanuel Kolini studied at Canon Warner Memorial College, Bishop Tucker College, in Mukono, Uganda, now known as the Uganda Christian University, and the Balya Bible College, in Uganda.
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Emmanuel Kolini worked as a primary school teacher and headmaster in some refugee schools in Bunyoro, Uganda.
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Emmanuel Kolini has a degree in theology from the Virginia Theological University in the United States.
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Emmanuel Kolini was consecrated as the assistant bishop of Bukavu, Zaire, in 1980.
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Emmanuel Kolini was the bishop of the Diocese of Katanga, in Zaire, from 1986 to 1997.
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Emmanuel Kolini was called to be the second Primate of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda in 1998, being Bishop of the Diocese of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.
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Emmanuel Kolini had an important role in the pacification of the post-genocidal Rwanda.
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In September 2007, Emmanuel Kolini intervened to prevent Paul Rusesabagina from speaking at All Souls Anglican Church, in Wheaton, Illinois, an AMiA parish, allegedly by pressure of Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
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Emmanuel Kolini has been a leading name in the Anglican realignment, as a member of the Global South and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.
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The United Nations Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo issued a report on 27 June 2012, which implicated Emmanuel Kolini with leading a meeting for the National Congress for the Defence of the People politicians in support of the March 23 Movement rebel group, operating in the DRC.
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Emmanuel Kolini co-wrote, with Peter R Holmes, Christ Walks Where Evil Reigned, about the Rwanda genocide, and Rethinking Life: What the Church Can Learn from Africa.
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Emmanuel Kolini is the subject of the book Emmanuel Kolini: The Unlikely Archbishop of Rwanda, by Mary Weeks Millard.