Gabriel Manek

Gabriel Wilhemus Manek (Lay Tjong Sie) (1913 – 30 November 1989) was an Indonesian archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church who was born in Ailomea Lahurus and died in Saint Joseph Hospital (Denver, Colorado).

Biography
Gabriel Wilhemus Manek was born on August 18, 1913, in Ailomea, Lahurus, Timor island. He was the youngest son of the couple John Leki (Lay Phiang Sioe) and Lioe Kioe Moy. Baptized one day after his birth which is on August 19, 1913, under the name: Gabriel John Wilhelmus Manek by Arnold Verstraelen.

When his father was in China, and not long after his mother, who was of mixed Chinese blood, died.

He was then adopted as a foster child by Maria Belak, wife of King Don Kaitanus da costa, king of the kingdom of Tasifeto, North Belu. In 1920, he entered primary school in Halilulik school standards in Ndona, then entered the seminary at Sikka in 1927. On 16 October 1932 he entered the Novitiate SVD and since 17 January 1937 lectured at the seminary high Ledalero, and graduated force. He was ordained a priest by Hendrikus Leven. In March, exactly at the time he was 38 years old, Pope Pius XII appointed him bishop on 25 April 1951.