Who is John Ribat?

Trevor
04/11/2016

John Ribat, 59 (in 2016), is the Catholoc archbishop of Port Moresby.

 

He was nominated as a Cardinal in 2016.

 

He was born at Volavolo in 1957, John Ribat made his first profession with the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in February 1979. He was ordained a priest in December 1985 and worked in parishes in Bereina Diocese. After studies in Manila, Philippines, he served as master of novices for the order at Suva, Fiji.

He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Bereina in October 2000 and then bishop in February 2002. He became archbishop of Port Moresby in March 2008, a year after Pope Benedict XVI appointed him coadjutor archbishop.

After heading the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands from 2011 to 2014, he was elected president of the Federation of Catholic Bishops' Conferences of Oceania in 2014.

 

See --

http://www.catholicregister.org/home/international/item/23451-papua-new-guinea-s-first-cardinal-to-represent-catholics-in-small-places

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