Diocese of Rarotonga

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Diocese of Rarotonga
Map of the Diocese of Rarotonga
Basic data
Country Cook Islands ( New Zealand )
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Suva
Diocesan bishop Paul Donoghue SM
Vicar General John Rovers SSCC
Damian Marinus SSCC
surface 234 km²
Parishes 15 (31.12.2017 / AP2018 )
Residents 11,885 ( 12/31/2017 / AP2018 )
Catholics 2,255 (December 31, 2017 / AP2018 )
proportion of 19%
Diocesan priest 4 (31.12.2017 / AP2018 )
Religious priest 5 (31.12.2017 / AP2018 )
Catholics per priest 251
Friars 5 (31.12.2017 / AP2018 )
Religious sisters 3 (31.12.2017 / AP2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language English
cathedral St. Joseph Cathedral in Avarua
Website www.catholiccookislands.co.ck

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rarotonga ( lat. : Dioecesis Rarotonganus ) is on the Cook Islands situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Avarua .

history

The diocese of Rarotonga was on November 27, 1922 by Pope Pius XI. established from the cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate Tahiti as Apostolic Prefecture Cook Islands and Manihiki . On August 11, 1926, was Apostolic Prefecture Cook Islands and Manihiki in apostolic prefecture Cook Islands renamed. The Cook Islands Apostolic Prefecture was founded on February 12, 1948 by Pope Pius XII. with the Apostolic Constitution Congruum sane raised to the Apostolic Vicariate .

The Vicariate Apostolic Cook Islands was founded on June 21, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. with the Apostolic Constitution Prophetarum voces raised to the diocese and renamed the Diocese of Rarotonga . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Suva as a suffragan .

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefects of the Cook Islands and Manihiki

Apostolic Prefect of the Cook Islands

Vicars Apostolic of the Cook Islands

Bishops of Rarotonga

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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