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Alexishafen
THE new Vicar Apostolic of Alexishafen, New Guinea, the Rt. Rev. Adolph Noser, was in Sydney in August en route to his new vicariate.
Bishop Noser, who is an American, will succeed Bishop Appelhans, who was killed when a Drover plane crashed into the sea off Lae, NG, in July, 1951.
Bishop Noser was born in 1900, ordained in 1925 in Rome, where he completed his ecclesiastical studies, and served in various capacities in the US until 1939, when he founded the mission at Accra, on the Gold Coast of Africa. When the Accra mission was raised to an episcopal
See he trcame its first Bishop. He was appointed to his new charge last year.