Cornelius Piong
His Grace The Right Reverend Datuk Cornelius Piong (born 1 July 1949) is a Malaysian prelate of the Catholic Church. He is the current Bishop of Keningau since 1993.

Cornelius was born in Bundu, Kuala Penyu on 1 July 1949. In 1970, he entered St Francis Xavier Major Seminary in Singapore and College General in Penang in 1972. On 27 March 1977, he was ordained priest in his hometown parish by Bishop Simon Michael Fung Kui Heong. In June 1987, he was appointed as vicar general of the Diocese of Kota Kinabalu (now Archdiocese).

On 17 December 1992, Cornelius received his appointment to be the bishop of the newly created Diocese of Keningau. He was ordained bishop on 6 May 1993 at St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Keningau by Archbishop Peter Chung Hoan Ting.

Cornelius is the first ever bumiputera Catholic bishop in Malaysia. He is of dusun tatana ethnicity, a bumiputera native to the Malaysian state of Sabah.
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