{"id":37138,"date":"2018-03-16T17:11:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bishop-bimenyimana-laid-to-rest\/"},"modified":"2018-03-20T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T14:00:56","slug":"bishop-bimenyimana-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bishop-bimenyimana-laid-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Bimenyimana laid to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bimenyimana succumbed to Leukemia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The burial ceremony was attended by different Catholic Church episcopal from different Dioceses including Bishop Anaclet Mwumvaneza of Nyundo, Celestin Hakizimana of Gikongoro, Servelien Nzakamwita of Byumba, Antoine Kambanda of Kibungo, Vincent Harolimana of Ruhengeri, Habiyambere former Nyundo Diocese Bishop, Smaragde Mbonyintege of Kabgayi, Rukamba Philippe of Butare and Pope Francis\u2019s envoy in Rwanda among others from Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>{{Bishop Bimenyimana eulogized as hero}}<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Halorimana said that late Bimenyimana was a person of all people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our country that was characterized by history of divisionism and hatred, he was a person of all people. People who had divisionism among themselves hunted him wanting to kill him, but, luckily he escaped the death several times,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, he was hunted but committed to stay together with Tutsi who were being hunt and shared hardships they passed through, he added.<\/p>\n<p>He said that his race was Rwandanship and Christianity. His inspiration was gospel and made him consider all people as brethrens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe passed on as a hero, that is why all people who knew him should stick on such heroism,\u201d Halorimana said.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cOther Bishops used to have study visits to this diocese with the ambition to learn from him, the way he managed the church and the way all things developed leading to good gospel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Under the message of Episcopal Conference of Rwanda red by Harolimana, they said \u2018We loved him and he was a person of value in our shared mission\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Bimenyimana was born on June 22nd 1953, in Bumazi, former Cyangugu Prefecture now Rusizi District of Western Province.<\/p>\n<p>He was ordained a priest on June 6th, 1980; ordained to the sacerdotal class in Nyundo Parish; and was ordained as Bishop of Cyangugu Diocese on January 18th, 1997. He was made an episcopal priest on March 16th, 1997.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24444 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_0812-6ca00.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24443 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_0804-2-fc396.jpg\" alt=\"Bimenyimana laid to rest\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24442 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_0779-b1729.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24440 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_0744-a9f44.jpg\" alt=\"Bishop Halorimana eulogized Bimenyimana as a hero\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24439 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_0587-37178.jpg\" alt=\"Local Government officials attended the burial ceremony\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24441 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_0876-f4f03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Photos by Moses Niyonzima}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church community from different parts of the country and neighboring countries has this Friday gathered at Cyangugu Cathedral for the burial ceremony of late Bishop  Jean Damasc\u00e8ne Bimenyimana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37138"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37138"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}