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This article on a Roman
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of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea) (1889.12.28 – 1892.11.13)
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1922.11.14 – retired 1923), on emeritate promoted as
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List of Roman
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294:(Papua New Guinea) (1889.05.10 – retired 1908.01)
664:Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Rabaul
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533:Francis Meli, appointed Bishop of Vanimo in 2018
516:Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
385:Johannes Höhne, M.S.C. (1963.03.01 – 1966.11.15
439:of Rabaul (1978.04.27 – 1980.10.24), Bishop of
317:Louis Couppé, M.S.C. (1889.12.28 – 1890.12.08
290:(1888.08.17 – 1912.01.17), Apostolic Vicar of
122:Apostolic Prefecture of German Solomon Islands
16:Roman Catholic archdiocese in Papua New Guinea
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443:(Papua New Guinea) (1980.10.24 – 1990.07.07)
104:Apostolic Prefecture of Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land
63:, M.S.C. was appointed the new archbishop.
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116:Apostolic Prefecture of British Solomons
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272:M.E.M. (1852.01.11 – death 1861.03.14)
205:Roman Catholic Diocese of Bougainville
110:Apostolic Vicariate of Gilbert Islands
88:On 8 December 1890, it was renamed as
83:Apostolic Vicariate of Western Oceania
669:Oceanian Roman Catholic diocese stubs
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129:Mission sui juris of Marshall Islands
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144:Apostolic Vicariate of Kavieng
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288:Titular Archbishop of Cyrrhus
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312:Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic
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366:Archbishop of Hierapolis
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503:Alphonse Liguori Chaupa
422:Apostolic Administrator
194:ecclesiastical province
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337:Louis Couppé, M.S.C. (
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466:Coadjutor archbishop
459:Coadjutor Archbishop
268:Father Paolo Reina,
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74:Apostolic Vicariate
528:Benedict To Varpin
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425:sede plena
418:Karl Hesse
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284:Pentacomia
234:Ordinaries
228:Roman Rite
150:diocese).
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572:4°20′39″S
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433:Naratcata
387:see below
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198:suffragan
162:suffragan
148:suffragan
146:(now its
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42:cathedral
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46:Vunapope
441:Kavieng
380:Mostene
363:Titular
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222:Bishops
67:History
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48:and a
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