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Mgr. Antonius Subianto Bunjamin, OSC (born 14 February 1968) is a Roman Catholic bishop and President of the
Bishops' Conference of Indonesia The Bishops' Conference of Indonesia (BCI; , KWI) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic bishops of Indonesia. It was constituted in November 1955, in Surabaya as the Supreme Council of Indonesian Bishops (). KWI is a part of the Federation o ...
. Ordained to the priesthood in 1996, Bunjamin was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bandung,
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
in 2014 succeeding Johannes Pujasumarta. The Vatican appointed Bunjamin as Apostolic Visitator to the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Ruteng The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ruteng () is a diocese located in the city of Ruteng in the ecclesiastical province of Ende in Indonesia. History * March 8, 1951: Established as the Apostolic Vicariate An apostolic vicariate is a territorial ...
in 2017, and to the Archdiocese of Merauke in 2019.


Background

Bunjamin was born on 14 February 1968 in
Bandung Bandung is the capital city of the West Java province of Indonesia. Located on the island of Java, the city is the List of Indonesian cities by population, fourth-most populous city and fourth largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta, Surabay ...
,
West Java West Java (, ) is an Indonesian Provinces of Indonesia, province on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten and the country's capital region of Jakarta to t ...
. When he was a child, he was nicknamed ''beke'', a Sundanese word which means short, because compared to his friends, Bunyamin was short. He grew up in the Parish of Santa Odilia, Cicadas.


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1968 births Living people People from Bandung Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Indonesia Pontifical Lateran University alumni {{Indonesia-RC-bishop-stub