James Ayong

The Most Reverend
James Simon Ayong
Bishop of Aipo-Rongo and Archbishop of Papua New Guinea
Church Anglican
See Aipo-Rongo
In office 1996 present
Predecessor Bevan Meredith
Successor incumbent
Orders
Ordination 1984
Consecration 1995
Personal details
Born 1944
Kumbun, West New Britain, Territory of New Guinea
Previous post Bishop of Aipo-Rongo
Bishop of Aipo-Rongo (incumbent)

James Simon Ayong (born in a cave in Kumbun, West New Britain in 1944) was the Anglican Archbishop of Papua New Guinea since 19 June 1996 to 2009. He has served as a parish priest in rural and metropolitan Papua New Guinea and, unusually among indigenous Papua New Guinean clergy, studied overseas, in England.

Archbishop Ayong is the first prelate in the church of Papua New Guinea to come from elsewhere in the country than the eastern Papuan heartland of the country's Anglican Church.

At the time of his birth Australian New Guinea (the northern half of eastern New Guinea and the New Guinea Islands) was under occupation by the forces of Japan during World War II and Japanese forces and Papuan tribesman sympathetic to the Japanese cause had recently executed the New Guinea Martyrs.

Education

In 1982, James Ayong earned his diploma in Theology from Newton College, in Papua New Guinea. He would earn a Bachelor of Theology from Martin Luther Seminary, in Lae. Martin Luther Seminary is a joint clergy-training venture of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea and the Gutnius Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea. He earned his Master of Arts degree from Chichester Theological College, in England, in 1994.

Career

See also

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