In February 2012, Fr Don Lippert OFM.Cap was ordained as the third bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Mendi in Papua New Guinea. This film follows him as he arrives in Mount Hagen and drives out to Mendi, the celebration with the people, the ordination by Cardinal Sean O'Malley and the first mass. It also includes some interviews with people from the Southern Hiighlands and Hela and shots of the context there.