Bernard Unabali (5 May 1957 – 10 August 2019) was a Papua New Guinean

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bishop who served as Bishop of the

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. Unabali was born in

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1985. He served as titular bishop of ''Cuicul'' and as auxiliary bishop of the

, Papua New Guinea, from 2006 to 2009. He then served as bishop of the diocese from 2009 until his death on 10 August 2019 at the St. Luke's Medical Center in

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