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Nongstoin Diocese gets a New Bishop
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 12-Feb-2023
Bishop Elect of Nongstoin Diocese,Rev. Fr. Merwin
According to a press release issued by Rev. Fr (Dr) Stephen Alathara,
the Deputy Secretary General of CCBI, Rev. Fr Wilbert Marwein has been appointed as the new Bishop of Nongstoin Diocese. The communiqué also adds that Fr. Wilbert Marwein was born on 17 February 1970 in Rangblang – Sohsyniong (Meghalaya), in the then Archdiocese of Shillong, now Diocese of Nongstoin. He was ordained priest on 27th April 2003 for the Archdiocese of Shillong, and in 2006 he joined the new Diocese of Nongstoin.
In 1988 he entered the St. Paul’s Seminary, Upper Shillong from 1991 to 1992, he studied at St. Xavier Minor Seminary, Shillong and from 1994 to 1997 he studied Philosophy at Christ King College, Shillong. After two years of pastoral experience in Pynursla, Archdiocese of Shillong, from 1999 to 2003, he studied Theology at the Oriens Theological College, Shillong. From 2007 to 2010 he was in Rome, where he obtained a Licentiate in Missiology at the Pontifical Urban University.
After his studies in Rome, from 2010 to 2015, he served as Assistant Parish Priest in the Diocese of Cosenza, Italy. From December 2015 to October 2019, he has been the Vicar General of the Diocese of Nongstoin. Since December 2015 up to present he is the Parish Priest of “Divine Saviour Church Nonbah” (Diocese of Nongstoin).
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