Sir Louis Vangeke,

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(1904 – 1982) was a

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n 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

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at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia. He was the first indigenous Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic bishop. Vangeke died in 1982, aged 78.

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