Critics Confounded
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Father Gregory Singkai, the 39ar-old Rector of the RC Diocesan minary at Bomana, is the first New iinean to be made a diocesan shop. His appointment by Pope iul as Bishop of Bougainville was nounced in Rome on August 6. He cceeds Bishop Leo Lemay. Also an unced at the same time was the pointment of another New Guinean, onsignor Herbert Paivu, aged 62, car General of the Archdiocese of \baul as titular Bishop of Temu ma and Auxiliary Bishop of Port oresby.
The appointments are an indication it the RC Church is speeding up localisation in Papua New Guinea lere it has had to face criticism r allegedly dragging its feet on the pointment of indigenes to bishop s. The appointment of Fr Singkai ll confound those critics who said - only New Guineans given “top” is were elderly men who would be lenable to the influence of the ite clergy.