Archbishop Peter Kurongku †

Deceased

Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1930		Born
21 Dec 1966	36.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
15 Nov 1978	48.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands
15 Nov 1978	48.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sinnuara
25 Mar 1979	49.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sinnuara
3 Oct 1981	51.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
7 Nov 1981	51.8	Installed	Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
11 Jun 1996	66.4	Died	Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

MicroData Summary
Peter Kurongku
Archbishop Peter Kurongku
(born 1930, died 11 Jun 1996)
Archbishop of Port Moresby

Event Place
Birth Place Tonnui
Ordained Bishop Honiara, Archdiocese of Honiara, Solomon Islands

a priest for 29.4 years
a bishop for 17.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Daniel Willem Stuyvenberg, S.M. †
Archbishop of Honiara
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Gregory Singkai †
Bishop of Bougainville
Bishop Leo Lemay, S.M. †
Bishop Emeritus of Bougainville

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Daniel Willem Stuyvenberg, S.M. † (1959)
Archbishop of Honiara
Archbishop Romolo Carboni † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Sidon
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Paul John Marx, M.S.C. † (1985)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Adrian Thomas Smith, S.M. (1983)
Bishop Gerard Francis Loft, S.M. † (1984)
Bishop Luke Paul Matlatarea, M.S.C. † (1988)
Bishop Gilles Côté, S.M.M. (1995)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q7175301

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 148, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 72, Number 5,765

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