Lucian Tapiedi [SEP] date of birth
Lucian Tapiedi
Lucian Tapiedi ( – 1942) was a Papuan Anglican teacher who was one of the "New Guinea Martyrs." The Martyrs were eight Anglican clergy, teachers, and medical missionaries killed by the Japanese in 1942 (a total of 333 church workers of all denominations were killed during the invasion).
Early life.
Tapiedi was born around 1921,"the nephew of a suspected sorcerer of Taupota village in Milne Bay district", on the north coast of Papua, and was educated at mission schools, where he
. Three hundred thirty-three church workers of various denominations were killed during the Japanese occupation of New Guinea.
A statue of Lucian Tapiedi, the one indigenous Papuan among the Anglican martyrs of New Guinea, is installed among the niches with other 20th-century Christian martyrs from the wider Church, over the west door of Westminster Abbey in London. The statue of Lucian Tapiedi stands second from right.
Postwar recovery was hindered by the eruption on 21 January 1951 of Mount Lamington, which devastated Higatura, which contained the