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Solomon Islands, where he was a priest in the Diocese of Ysabel. In 1999, he went back to teaching at the Selwyn College, where he was principal. He became Mission Secretary at the Provincial Headquarters of the Church of Melanesia, in 2000. Vunagi was elected the same
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Archbishop Vunagi left office on 6 September 2015, in a ceremony that took place at St. Barnabas
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He was elected the 5th Archbishop and Primate of the
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