Smaragde Mbonyintege (born 2 February 1947) is the Catholic Bishop of Kabgayi, in Rwanda. Smaragde Mbonyintege was born on 2 February 1947 in Cyeza parish, Kabgayi diocese, in the current Kayumbu Sector in Kamonyi District, Southern Province.He received his primary and secondary education from church schools.He studied in the Minor Seminary of St. Paul in Kigali.He went on to the Saint Charles Borromeo Major Seminary of Nyakibanda, where he studied philosophy (1969-1972) and theology (1972-1975). He was ordained in 1975 in the Diocese of Kabgayi. He attended the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1979 to 1983, earning an MA in Spiritual Theology.