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Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

Diocese of Kavieng is a suffragan diocese of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rabaul The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rabaul is a Latin Rite Metropolitan Diocese, Metropolitan Archdiocese in Papua New Guinea. It has its cathedral episcopal see Sacred Heart Cathedral in Vunapope and a Co-Cathedral, St Francis Xavier's Co-Cathedra ...

. It was erected Vicariate Apostolic in 1957 and elevated to a diocese in 1966.

Bishops

Alfred Matthew Stemper Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlu ...

M.S.C. The Marianites of Holy Cross (MSC) is a Catholic congregation of nuns, founded in Le Mans, France, in 1841, by Fr Basil Moreau. It was founded as a third distinct society within the Congregation of Holy Cross. The Marianites of Holy Cross is now an ...

(1957–1980) *

Karl Hesse Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ...

(24 October 1980 – 7 July 1990), appointed Archbishop of Rabaul *

Ambrose Kiapseni Ambrose Kiapseni M.S.C., CMG (16 October 1945 – 20 December 2019) was a Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic bishop. Kiapseni was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kavieng since his episcopal ordination on 12 May 1991 until his resignati ...

(21 January 1991 – 22 June 2018) * Rochus Josef Tatamai, M.S.C. (22 June 2018 – 19 June 2020), appointed Archbishop of Rabaul

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Kavieng Kavieng is the capital of the Papua New Guinean province of New Ireland and the largest town on the island of the same name. The town is located at Balgai Bay, on the northern tip of the island. As of 2009, it had a population of 17,248. Kavi ...

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