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By Mathias Hariyadi Pope Francis appointed Father Fransiskus Tuarman Sinaga  as the new bishop of the Diocese of Sibolga on Saturday. The diocesan priest comes from the same region, North Sumatra province, which includes Nias Island. Born in 1972 in Penggalangan, Archdiocese of Medan, Bishop Tuarman Sinaga has been a priest since 2003. For years he served in the parish of Gunungsitoli, capital of Nias, and as an educator at St Peter s Aek Tolang Minor Seminary in Sibolga. After studying moral theology at Urbaniana University in Rome, he became the director of the Dian Mandala Diocesan Pastoral Institute in Gunungsitoli. Mgr Sinaga will be the third bishop of Sibolga, which was set up as an apostolic prefecture in 1959 and elevated to the rank of Diocese in 1980. He will be the first bishop from the diocesan clergy, after two Capuchin friars, Anicetus Bongsu Antonius Sinaga and Ludovicus Simanullang.

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