Stephen Joseph Reichert


Stephen Joseph Reichert is a Roman Catholic archbishop-emeritus.
Born in Leoville, Kansas, United States, Reichert was ordained to the priesthood for the Capuchin order on 27 September 1969. On 3 February 1995, Reichert was appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mendi, Papua New Guinea and was ordained a bishop on 7 May 1995. He was then appointed archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madang, Papua New Guinea on 30 November 2010. The proposal of archbishop's coat of arms created by Marek Sobola, a heraldic artist from Slovakia.
Reichert resignation upon having reached the age limit was accepted on 26 July 2019.