Eulade Rudahunga

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Eulade Rudahunga
Padre, Monsignor
Born1921-22
Ngoma, Gitarama, Rwanda
DiedFebruary 11, 2019
Butare
Burial
Butare
FatherTutuba Wa Kananga
MotherNyirubuyanja

Eulade Rudahunga was a Rwandan priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Butare in the Republic of Rwanda from August 2, 1953, to 2019. He served as a chaplain for different parishes until he received the title of Monsignor by Pope John Paul II.[1]

Rudahunga attended Kabgayi and Nyakibanda seminaries before receiving the ecclesiastical title of Padre.[2]

He worked as a teacher and taught well-known Rwandan figures such as the late

president of Rwanda
.

Rudahunga was a survivor of the 1994

genocide against the Tutsi
. He survived by pleading with the killers and giving them some of the church savings to free himself and other refugees they hid within the church.

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