Josef Lörks

Josef Lörks was a German clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak.
Born in Hanselaer, Germany, he was a missionary priest in New Guinea since 1900. He was appointed bishop in 1928. He was consecrated for the East New Guinea Vicariate Apostolic in 1933.
In December 1942, he was incarcerated in a Japanese prison on Kairiru Island near Wewak. In March 1943, following the naval battle of Coral Sea, he was taken aboard the destroyer Akikaze where prisoners were shot at three-minute intervals.