Bishop of Bunda
Msgr. Simon Chibuga Masondole was born on 2 October 1972 in Bukiko-Ukerewe. He studied at the Our Lady of the Angels Major Seminary in Kibosho, diocese of Moshi (1998-2001), and at the Saint Charles Lwanga Major Seminary in Segerea, metropolitan archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam (2001-2006). He was ordained a priest on 2 July 2006. Since priestly ordination he has held the following offices: parish assistant in the Kahangala parish, Mwanza (2006); vice-director of the Diocesan Office for the Liturgy in Mwanza and parish assistant at the Nansio parish in Bunda (2006-2008). He studied liturgy at the Santa Giustina Institute of Pastoral Liturgy in Padua, Italy (2008-2012) and was parish assistant in Conselve (2009-2012). He studied in Rome at the Pontifical Saint Anselm Athenaeum (2012-2016), and provided parish pastoral service in the diocese of Tortona-Italy (2015-2018). From 2018 to the present he has served as parish administrator, director of the Saint Francis of Assisi Nursery and Primary School, and president of the Priests’ Union in Bunda.