Louis Vangeke | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Bishop of Bereina | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Diocese | Bereina | ||||||||||||||||||
| Appointed | 1 March 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Term ended | 30 October 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Eugène Klein | ||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Benedict To Varpin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Other post(s) | Bishop Emeritus of Bereina (1979–1982) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 25 Jun 1904[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 December 1982 (aged 78) Beipa'a, Papua New Guinea[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Buried | Beipa'a | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Source(s):Catholic-Hierarchy.org,[1] Australian Dictionary of Biography[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
Sir Louis Vangeke, M.S.C. KBE (1904–1982) was a Papua New Guinean prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Bereina in Papua New Guinea from 1976 to 1979. Prior to that he was the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Port Moresby, also in Papua New Guinea. Vangeke was consecrated as a bishop on 3 December 1970 by Pope Paul VI at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia.[3] He was the first indigenous Papua New Guinean Catholic bishop.[2] Vangeke died in 1982, aged 78.[1]
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