Marshall Islands Apostolic Prefecture

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Marshall Islands Apostolic Prefecture
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Basic data
Country Marshall Islands
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Agaña
Apostolic Prefect Ariel Galido MSC
Apostolic Prefect Emeritus James C. Gould SJ
Raymundo Sabio MSC
founding 1993
surface 181 km²
Parishes 12 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents 52,600 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics 5,100 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of 9.7%
Diocesan priest 1 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest 4 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest 1,020
Permanent deacons 1 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Friars 7 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters 6 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language English
cathedral Cathedral of the Assumption
Website http://usccb.org/hm/diocese/marshall.htm
Ecclesiastical province
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The Apostolic Prefecture of the Marshall Islands ( Latin : Apostolica Praefectura Insularum Marshallensium ) is a Roman Catholic Apostolic Prefecture located in the Marshall Islands and Wake , with its seat in Majuro .

history

The forerunner of today's Apostolic Prefecture Marshall Islands is the Mission sui juris Marshall Islands , founded in 1905 by Pope Pius X from the Apostolic Vicariate of New Pomerania . But already on May 4th 1923 the mission was dissolved and affiliated to the Apostolic Vicariate Marianen and Carolinen . From 1905 to 1915 Bruno Schinxe was MSC Superior.

The Apostolic Prefecture Marshall Islands was reestablished on April 23, 1993 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Quo expeditius by the division of the Diocese of Carolines-Marshall Islands into the Diocese of Carolines and the Apostolic Prefecture of the Marshall Islands.

Apostolic Prefects of the Marshall Islands

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Quo expeditius , AAS 85 (1993), n.10, p. 876ff.