Bishop of Banjarmasin
Victorius Dwiardy, O.F.M. Cap., is Bishop of Banjarmasin. He was born in Sebalos, in the Archdiocese of Pontianak, on 14 December 1968. After entering the Capuchin novitiate of Parapat, he continued his philosophical and theological studies at the Interdiocesan Major Seminary of Pematangsiantar, Sumatra. He made religious vows, identified in the Italian source as perpetual profession, in 1997, and was ordained a priest on 10 October 1998. After ordination, he served as deputy parish priest of the Cathedral of Pontianak from 1998 to 2001 and of St. Fransiskus Asisi in Tebet, Jakarta. He studied for a degree in civil law at the Christian University in Jakarta from 2002 to 2008. He later served as president of the Dharma Insan Foundation from 2008 to 2013, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Pontianak from 2008 to 2012, counsellor of the Capuchin Province of Pontianak from 2009 to 2012, and provincial minister of the Capuchins of Pontianak from 2012 to 2013. Since 2013 he has served as definitor general of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in Rome, in a second mandate, and since 2020 with responsibility for the Asia-Pacific Region.