Peter Kurongku

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Most Reverend Sir Peter Kurongku, KBE (1930 – 11 June 1996) was Roman Catholic

Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Born in 1930 at Tonnui, he was ordained a priest of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea on
21 December 1966 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 was created a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British
Empire "for public and community services", dated 14 June 1986. He died on 11 June
1996. He had been a priest for 29 years and a bishop for 17 years.

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