Leo Clement Andrew Arkfeld (born in 1912 in
Butte, Nebraska
Butte is a small town in, and the county seat of, Boyd County, Nebraska, United States. Its population was 326 according to the 2010 census, down from 366 in 2000.
History
Butte was named from the small hills, or buttes, near the town site.
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) was an
American
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clergyman and
bishop
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for the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak The Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak is a suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madang. It was elevated to a diocese in 1966.
Bishops Bishops of Wewak
* Camisio Teodoro Gellings, SS.CC. (1913−1918)
* Adalberto Ottone Rielander, ...
.
He was appointed bishop of Wewak in 1948, and Archbishop of Madang in 1975 until his retirement in 1987. He died in 1999.
References
1912 births
1999 deaths
American Roman Catholic bishops by contiguous area of the United States
Roman Catholic archbishops of Madang
Roman Catholic bishops of Wewak
20th-century American clergy
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