Polycarp Pengo (born 5 August 1944) is a Tanzanian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam, from 1992 to 2019.

[1] he studied Moral Theology in Rome at the Pontifical Lateran University, obtaining a doctorate in 1977.

[2] Pengo was proclaimed a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 1998.

[5] In 2000, Pengo hit out at the commission of homosexual acts, saying it was one of the most heinous sins on earth.

[7] Pengo has declared that the AIDS epidemic cannot be overcome by relying exclusively or primarily on the distribution of prophylactics, but only through a strategy based on education to individual responsibility in the framework of a moral view of human sexuality.