Louis Vangeke Explained

Type:bishop
Honorific Prefix:His Excellency, The Most Reverend, Sir
Louis Vangeke
Honorific Suffix:M.S.C.,
Bishop of Bereina
Diocese:Bereina
Appointed:1 March 1976
Term End:30 October 1979
Predecessor:Eugène Klein
Successor:Benedict To Varpin
Other Post:Bishop Emeritus of Bereina (19791982)
Birth Place:Ongofoina, Beipa'a, Territory of Papua
Death Place:Beipa'a, Papua New Guinea
Buried:Beipa'a

Sir Louis Vangeke, M.S.C. (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. He was the first indigenous Papua New Guinean Catholic bishop. Vangeke died in 1982, aged 78.