Benyamin Yosef Bria (August 7, 1956 – September 18, 2007) was the

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n Bishop of the

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Diocese of Denpasar. The

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is based in the city of

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, on

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Biography

Benyamin Yosef Bria was born on August 7, 1956. Bria was

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on June 29, 1985. He was appointed bishop of Denpasar on April 14, 2000, and was formally ordained as the Bishop of Denpasar on August 7, 2000. Bria remained as

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until his death in 2007. In 2005, Bria led memorial masses in

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, to remember victims of the Bali bombings. Bishop Benyamin Yosef Bria died of

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at Mount Elisabeth Hospital in

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on September 18, 2007, at 9.18 A.M. He was 51 years old. According to an Antara News report, Bria's nieces, Elis, Ela and Gin, all from Atambua,

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, and two Roman Catholic priests from the Diocese of Denpasar, Fathers Matheus and Hadi, were at his bedside when he died. He was also survived by two cousins, Father Maxi Un and Antonius Un Taolin.

References

External links

Catholic Hierarchy: Biography of Bishop Benyamin Yosef BriaANTARA News: Denpasar bishop passes away in SingaporeCatholic News: Bali Bishop in Adelaide for terror remembrance

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