Raymond Kalisz

Raymond Philip Kalisz (27 September 1927 – 12 December 2010) was the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Wewak, Papua New Guinea.

Raymond Philip Kalisz
Bishop Emeritus of Wewak
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Diocese of Wewak
See	Wewak
Elected	24 April 1980 (as Bishop)
In office	1980–2002 (Bishop of Wewak)
Retired	14 August 2002
Orders
Ordination	15 August 1954
Consecration	15 August 1980
Rank	Bishop
Personal details
Born	Raymond Philip Kalisz (1927-09-27)September 27, 1927 Melvindale, Michigan, U.S.
Died	December 12, 2010(2010-12-12) (aged 83) Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Buried	St. Mary Cemetery, Techny, Illinois
Denomination	Catholicism
Other popes named Member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD)

Born in Melvindale, Michigan, United States, Kalisz was ordained a priest on 15 August 1954 for the Society of the Divine Word. On 24 April 1980, Kalisz was appointed bishop of the Wewak Diocese and was ordained on 15 August 1980.

Between 1996 and 1999, he was the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.^[1]

Bishop Kalisz retired on 14 August 2002.^[2] He died on Sunday 12 December 2010, in Evanston, Illinois, at the age of 83. Cardinal Francis Eugene George, OMI, Metropolitan Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, presided at an evening wake service Thursday 16 December 2010, and Father Adam MacDonald was the main celebrant of the Bishop's funeral Mass on Friday 17 December 2010. Both services took place in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, at the Techny Towers Conference and Retreat Center in Techny, Illinois; burial at St. Mary Cemetery in Techny followed the funeral Mass.