Most Reverend
Sir Peter Kurongku,
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(1930 – 11 June 1996) was
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Born in 1930 at
Tonnui, he was ordained a priest of
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea on 21 December 1966 by Archbishop
Daniel Stuyvenberg Daniel Willem Stuyvenberg ( Utrecht, Netherlands, 1909-04-14 - 1989-10-17) was Archbishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands.
Stuyvenberg was ordained a priest of the Society of Mary by Archbishop Romolo Carboni on 23 February 1936.
On 27 November 19 ...
. On 15 November 1978 he was named Auxiliary Bishop of
Honiara, Solomon Islands and as Titular Bishop of Sinnuara on 25 March 1979. On 3 October 1981, he was appointed as Archbishop of
Port Moresby and installed the following month.
He was created a
Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire "for public and community services", dated 14 June 1986. He died on 11 June 1996. He had been a priest for 29 years and a bishop for 17 years.
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1930 births
1996 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
People from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville
People from the National Capital District (Papua New Guinea)
20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Papua New Guinea
Date of birth unknown
Roman Catholic archbishops of Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic archbishops
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