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Diocese of Wewak is a suffragan diocese of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madang The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madang is a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Papua New Guinea with suffragan dioceses of Aitape, Lae, Vanimo and Wewak. The Archdiocese was created in 1966 when it was elevated from a predecessor see. The Metropoli ...

. It was elevated to a diocese in 1966.

Bishops

Bishops of Wewak

* Camisio Teodoro Gellings, SS.CC. (1913−1918) * Adalberto Ottone Rielander, SS.CC.(1918−1922) * Teodosio Heikenrath, (1922-1923) * Giuseppe Lörks, S.V.D. (1928−1945) *

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, S.V.D. (1948−1975) * Raymond Kalisz, S.V.D. (1980−2002) *

Anthony Joseph Burgess Anthony Joseph Burgess (29 July 1938 − 23 October 2013) was an Australian-born Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1967 in Maitland for the Diocese of Hobart, Burgess was appointed coadjutor bishop of the ...

(2002−2013) * Józef Roszyński, S.V.D. (2015–present); was Polish religious missionary priest in the Diocese; consecrated and installed 25 April 2015

Coadjutor bishop

(2000-2002)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

* Michael Marai, appointed Bishop of Goroka in 1988 * Cherubim Alfred Dambui, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Port Moresby in 2000 *

Otto Separy Otto Separy (born 5 August 1957 in Kubila) is a Papua New Guinean clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aitape. He was appointed bishop in 2009. He left for Bereina Bereina is a town in the Central Province of Papua New Guine ...

, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Aitape in 2007

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Wewak Wewak is the capital of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. It is on the northern coast of the island of New Guinea. It is the largest town between Madang and Jayapura. It is the see city (seat) of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak. ...