Emmanuel Kolini

Who is Emmanuel Kolini?

Emmanuel Mbona Kolini is a Congolese-Rwandan Anglican priest. He was the second Primate of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda, named Anglican Church of Rwanda in 2007, from 1998 to 2011. He is married and a father of eight children.

He studied at Canon Warner Memorial College, Bishop Tucker College, in Mukono, Uganda, know known as the Uganda Christian University, and the Balya Bible College, also in Uganda. He worked as a primary school teacher and headmaster in some refugee schools in Bunyoro, Uganda. He has a degree in Theology from the Virginia Theological University, in the United States.

Kolini was ordained an Anglican priest in 1969. He would be consecrated Assistant Bishop of Bukavu, Zaire, in 1980. He was Bishop of the Diocese of Katanga, in Zaire, from 1986 to 1997. Kolini was called to be the second Primate of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda, in 1998, being also Bishop of the Diocese of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. He would be in office until 2011.

He had an important role in the pacification of the post-genocidal Rwanda. He has been also a leading name in the Anglican realignment movement, as a member of the Global South and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.