Peter Kurongku

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Archbishop Peter Kurongku was Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Born in 1930 at Tonnui, on 21 December 1966 he was ordained a Priest Priest of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea by Archbishop Daniel Stuyvenberg.

On 15 November 1978 he was named Auxiliary Bishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands and as Titular Bishop of Sinnuara on 25 March 1979.

On 3 October 1981, he was appointed as Archbishop of Port Moresby and installed the following month.

He died on 11 June 1996, aged 66. He had been a priest for 29 years and a bishop for 17 years.

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