Rite Latin Rite Pope Francis Country Papua New Guinea | Cathedral Holy Spirit Cathedral Area 27,752 km² Bishop Stephen Joseph Reichert | |
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Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2004)
285,154
142,000 (49.8%) | ||
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madang is a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Papua New Guinea with suffragan dioceses of Aitape, Lae, Vanimo and Wewak. The Metropolitan Archbishop-elect of Madang, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, November 30, 2010, is the former Bishop of Mendi, Papua New Guinea, Stephen Joseph Reichert, O.F.M. Cap., a native of Leoville, Kansas in the United States and a Capuchin. He succeeds Archbishop William Joseph Kurtz, S.V.D., whose resignation was accepted upon having reached the age limit. Archbishop Kurtz succeeded Archbishop Emeritus Benedict To Varpin.
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Coat of Arms
The proposal of coat of arms created Marek Sobola, a heraldic specialist from Slovakia, who also made a redesign of coat of arms for the archbishop Stephen Joseph Reichert, O.F.M. Cap.