Mgr. Antonius Subianto Bunjamin,

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(born 14 February 1968) is a Roman Catholic bishop and President of the

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. Ordained to the priesthood in 1996, Bunjamin was named bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bandung The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bandung ( la, Bandungen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Bandung in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jakarta, Jakarta on Java, in Indonesia. Its cathedral epi ...

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in 2014 succeeding

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. The Vatican appointed Bunjamin as

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to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ruteng in 2017, and to the Archdiocese of Merauke in 2019.

Background

Bunjamin was born on 14 February 1968 in

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. When he was a child, he was nicknamed ''beke'', a Sundanese word which means short, because compared to his friends, Bunyamin was short. He grew up in the Parish of Santa Odilia, Cicadas.

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