275:, who had been named the first Vicar Apostolic of the new Apostolic Vicariate of Ruanda. He was made superior of the junior seminary, and spiritual father of the major seminary. In 1927 he became inspector of schools in Rwanda. On 1 October 1930 he was released from the junior seminary and named the Vicar Delegate of Bishop Classe. On 8 September 1932 he was named Superior of the major "intervicarial" seminary of Kabgayi. On 9 July 1936 this seminary was officially transferred to
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missionaries who had been indiscriminate in baptizing people who were drawn to the church during the famine of 1933–35. He made changes to religious teaching practices and gave fresh emphasis to the sanctity of the
Sabbath. In 1950, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Catholic Church in Rwanda, he held a synod to discuss completing the restoration of the church in preparation for transferring responsibility to African clergy with the separation of the
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Déprimoz was appointed
Titular Bishop of Mathara in Proconsulari and Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Ruanda on 12 January 1943. On 19 March 1943 he was ordained at Kabgayi. On 31 January 1945 he succeeded Classe as Vicar Apostolic of Ruanda. He inherited a difficult situation partly caused by
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magazine for young readers in
Christmas 1954. Déprimoz became ill, and resigned his duties on 15 April 1955. After a stay in Europe, in 1958 he returned to Rwanda and settled at
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in 1913 when Classe visited in his role as vicar delegate of the south of the
Apostolic Vicariate of Kivu. In October 1915 Déprimoz became a teacher at the Junior Seminary at
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