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New Bishop for Wewak PNG

Tuesday, February 10th, 2015

The Diocese of Wewak has a new Bishop, Fr. Jozef Roszynski S.V.D. Roszynski was born in 1962 in Nidzica, diocese of Warmia, Poland. After completing his studies at the major Seminary of the Society of the Divine Word in Pieniezno, he was ordained a priest for the same religious Congregation on April 30th 1989. Roszynski Read more

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Wewak Bishop Tony Burgess has died

Friday, October 25th, 2013

The retired Bishop of Wewak, Tony Burgess, died in Sydney on Sunday 23 October. He spent 40 years working in Papua New Guinea. Arriving in 1973 he was sent to Karaitem near Lumi in the Torrecelli Mountains. Lumi was a large government station and the parish was under the care of Franciscan Fr. Tom Ritchie. Read more

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