Apostolic Vicariate of Melanesia

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The Apostolic Vicariate Melanesia ( Latin : Apostolicus Vicariatus Melanesiae ) was a Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate located in Melanesia .

history

The Apostolic Vicariate of Melanesia was on July 19, 1844 by Pope Gregory XVI. Erected with the papal bull ex debito from cessions of territory of the Vicariate Apostolic West Oceania .

On May 10, 1889, the Apostolic Vicariate Melanesia was by Pope Leo XIII. dissolved. The Apostolic Vicariates of New Guinea and New Britain were established from the territory .

Vicars Apostolic of Melanesia

Jean Baptiste Epalle SM , 1844-1845
Jean Georges Collomb SM, 1846-1848
Louis-André Navarre MSC , 1887–1889, then Vicar Apostolic of New Guinea

See also

List of former Catholic dioceses

Web links

Entry on Vicariate Apostolic Melanesia on catholic-hierarchy.org
Entry on the Apostolic Vicariate of Melanesia on Giga-Catholic (English)
Bull Ex debito , in Raffaele de Martinis, Iuris pontificii de propaganda fide. Pars prima , Tomo V, Romae 1893, pp. 342-343