15 December 1982 (1982-12-16) (aged 78) Beipa'a, Papua New Guinea[2]
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Auxiliary Bishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (1970–1976)
Titular Bishop of Culusi (1970–1976)
Bishop of Bereina (1976–1979)
Ordination history
History
Priestly ordination
Date
14 June 1937
Place
Tananarive, Madagascar[2]
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator
Pope Paul VI
Co-consecrators
Virgil Patrick Copas,
Eugène Klein
Date
3 December 1970
Place
St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Louis Vangeke as principal consecrator
Benedict To Varpin
1980
Source(s):Catholic-Hierarchy.org,[1] Australian Dictionary of Biography[2]
Sir Louis Vangeke, M.S.C. KBE (1904–1982) was a Papua New Guinean prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Bereina in Papua New Guinea from 1976 to 1979. Prior to that he was the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Port Moresby, also in Papua New Guinea. Vangeke was consecrated as a bishop on 3 December 1970 by Pope Paul VI at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia.[3] He was the first indigenous Papua New Guinean Catholic bishop.[2] Vangeke died in 1982, aged 78.[1]
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