Privacy Statement

The first Presentation Sisters arrived in Papua New Guinea in 1966, a hundred years after the first group of Presentation Sisters arrived in Australia at Richmond, Tasmania. The first five Sisters went to the village of Ningil in the Torricelli Mountains in the Saundaun Province to teach in the village school. Since then the Sisters established communities at Malol and Aitape. In 1998 the Sisters at Malol were among the first people to alert the world to the disaster caused by the tsunami in that area. Following that the Sisters moved to be with the people as they were resettled in new villages.

During 2003 three Sisters have visited several remote villages in the Torricelli Mountains with the prospect of establishing a new community to work with the local people.

In 1992 three PNG women were professed as Presentation Sisters. In 2006 there are 18 National Sisters as well as 6 Australian Sisters working in the Sandaun Province. Their ministries include Administration, Nursing, Education (Primary and Youth), Formation, Hospital Chaplaincy, Secretarial, Study, Pastoral and Parish Work.

PNG Sisters who attended Congress 2006:

Bernadina Telemai, Marion Kingston and Alexia Wunge
with (front) Kathleen Tynan (retiring President) and Bernadette Keating (new President)

Click here for more photos from Congress 2006

Photos from PNG:

PNG Assembly held in January 2006

PNG Leadership Team elected in January 2006: Regina Sabau, Marion Kingston, Alexia Wunge, Regina Gevia, Cathy Mur, Bernadina Telemai

Newly professed Sisters with Bishop Austen after their profession ceremony on 11 January 2003: Roslyn, Imelda, Jacklyn, Dorothy, Scholly, Mary	Regina with Bishop Austen after her Final Vows ceremony on 26 April 2003

Lawrencia (left above) and Dorothy and Ursula (right) sewing clothes for children in the Aitape hospital

PNG Contact:

Marion Kingston pbvm
pbvm@global.net.pg