Laurent Mbanda

He was the bishop of the Diocese of Shyira when he was elected the fourth archbishop and primate of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda on 17 January 2018,[1] being enthroned on 10 June 2018.

He was elected the fourth archbishop and primate of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda on 17 January 2018, among five candidates, during the meeting the House of Bishops at St. Étienne Cathedral, in Kigali, and his enthronement took place on 10 June.

[7] In April 2023, Mbanda hosted the fourth quinquennial GAFCON event in Kigali, at which he was elected chairman of the Primates Council of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.

[8] He published Committed to Conflict: The Destruction of the Church in Rwanda (1997), co-written with Steve Wamberg, about the Rwandan genocide, and his autobiography, From Barefoot to Bishop (2017).

Their son Edwin Mbanda died unexpectedly in his sleep at the age of 33 in Philadelphia on April 18, 2023, during the GAFCON conference that his father was hosting in Kigali.