Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru

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Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru
Map of the Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru
Basic data
Country Kiribati
Nauru
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Suva
Diocesan bishop Koru Tito (appointed)
Emeritus diocesan bishop Paul Eusebius Mea Kaiuea MSC
surface 831 km²
Parishes 21 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents 126,632 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics 68,406 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of 54%
Diocesan priest 17 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest 6 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest 2,974
Friars 23 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters 73 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Kiribati , Nauruan and English
cathedral Sacred Heart Cathedral

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru ( Latin Dioecesis Taravana et Nauruna ) is an in Kiribati and Nauru situated Roman Catholic diocese based in South Tarawa .

history

The diocese of Tarawa and Nauru was on June 28, 1897 by Pope Leo XIII. Established from the cession of territory by the Vicariate Apostolic Micronesia as Vicariate Apostolic Gilbert Islands . The Vicariate Apostolic Gilbert Islands was on June 21, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. with the Apostolic Constitution Prophetarum voces raised to the diocese and renamed the Diocese of Tarawa . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Suva as a suffragan . On November 15, 1978, the Diocese of Tarawa was renamed the Diocese of Tarawa, Nauru and Funafuti . The diocese of Tarawa, Nauru and Funafuti gave up parts of its territory on September 10, 1982 to establish the Mission sui juris Funafuti and was renamed the Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru .

Coat of arms of the diocese, since 2019

Ordinaries

Church on Abaiang Island

Vicars Apostolic

  1. Joseph-Marie Leray MSC , 1897-1927
  2. Joseph Bach MSC, 1927-1933
  3. Octave-Marie Terrienne MSC, 1937-1961
  4. Pierre-Auguste-Antoine-Marie Guichet MSC, 1961–1966

Bishops

  1. Pierre-Auguste-Antoine-Marie Guichet MSC , 1966–1978
  2. Paul Eusebius Mea Kaiuea MSC, 1978-2020
  3. Koru Tito , since 2020

See also

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Prophetarum voces , AAS 59 (1967), n.3, p. 201ff.