Henri Isingoma

Who is Henri Isingoma?

Henri Kahwa Isingoma is a Democratic Republic of the Congo Anglican priest. He is the third Primate and Archbishop of the Anglican Church of the Congo since his consecration in August 2009. Isingoma is married to Mugisha and has 6 adult children.

He studied at the Boga Institute and at the Nyankunde Institute, where he graduated in 1977. He took a degree in Theology and Human Sciences at the Superior Institute of Anglican Theology, in 1984. He also helds a Master Degree in Theology at the Evangelical Theology Faculty of Bangui, Central African Republic, in 1997.

He served first as Bishop of Katanga, from 1997 to 2007, being elected Bishop of Boga in 2007, a position that he held until 2009. He was elected third Primate and Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Congo in a Bishops retreat held in Goma at 28 April 2009. He received four out of seven votes. He also serves as Bishop of Kinshasa.

Isingoma is considered a moderate conservative. He is critical of the Episcopal Church of the United States departure of orthodox Anglicanism but at the same time he is also supportive of those orthodoxes still remaining in the church.