Noser, Adolph Alexander, Archbishop, S.V.D.

Archbishop Adolph Alexander Noser was born in Belleville, Illinois. He became a priest of the Society of the Divine Word (Divine Word Missionaries). He was ordained bishop and was sent to Accra, Ghana, in 1950. Merton and Noser began contact in 1968, after Noser was appointed Archbishop of Madang, Papua New Guinea.