Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia

Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia
Basic data
Country	Samoa
Diocesan bishop	Alapati Lui Mataeliga
Vicar General	Sanele Tuilaepa Mark Mataeliga
founding	1850
surface	2,922 km²
Parishes	37 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Residents	180.101 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics	40,500 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
proportion of	22.5%
Diocesan priest	34 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Religious priest	17 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics per priest	794
Permanent deacons	18 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Friars	32 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Religious sisters	70 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	English
cathedral	Mulivai Catholic Cathedral
Suffragan dioceses	Diocese of Samoa-Pago Pago Mission sui juris Tokelau

The Erzbistum Samoa Apia ( lat. : Archidioecesis Samoa Apianus ) is an in Samoa preferred Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Apia .

history

Mulivai Cathedral in Apia

The Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia was founded on August 20, 1850 by Pope Pius IX. from the cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate Central Oceania as the Apostolic Vicariate Archipelago of Navigators established. On January 4, 1957, the Vicariate Apostolic Archipelago of the Navigators was renamed the Vicariate Apostolic Samoa and Tokelau .

The Apostolic Vicariate of Samoa and Tokelau was on June 21, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. with the Apostolic Constitution Prophetarum voces raised to the diocese and renamed the diocese of Apia . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Suva as a suffragan . On August 10, 1974, the Apia diocese was renamed the Apia, Samoa and Tokelau Diocese . The diocese of Apia, Samoa and Tokelau was renamed on December 3, 1975 in the Diocese of Samoa and Tokelau . On September 10, 1982, the Diocese of Samoa and Tokelau were parts of its territory to the founding of the Apostolic Constitution quidem Studiose erected diocese Samoa Pago Pago from.

The diocese of Samoa and Tokelau was elevated to an archbishopric on September 10, 1982 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Maiorem ad utilitatem and renamed the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia and Tokelau . On June 26, 1992, the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia and Tokelau was divided into the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia and the Mission sui juris Tokelau .

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of the Navigators Archipelago

• Pietro Broyer SM , 1896-1918
• Joseph Darnand SM, 1919-1953
• Jean Baptiste Dieter SM, 1953–1955
• George Hamilton Pearce SM, 1956-1957

Vicars Apostolic of Samoa and Tokelau

• George Hamilton Pearce SM, 1957-1966

Bishops of Apia

• George Hamilton Pearce SM, 1966–1967, then Archbishop of Suva
• Cardinal Pio Taofinu'u SM, 1968-1974

Bishops of Apia, Samoa and Tokelau

• Cardinal Pio Taofinu'u SM, 1974-1975

Bishops of Samoa and Tokelau

• Pio Cardinal Taofinu'u SM, 1975-1982

Archbishops of Samoa-Apia and Tokelau

• Cardinal Pio Taofinu'u SM, 1982-1992

Archbishops of Samoa Apia

• Cardinal Pio Taofinu'u SM, 1992-2002
• Alapati Lui Mataeliga , since 2002

See also

• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses

Web links

• Entry on the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved June 10, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Prophetarum voces , AAS 59 (1967), n.3, p. 201ff.
2. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Studiose quidem , AAS 75 I (1983), n.1, p. 1f.
3. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Maiorem ad utilitatem , AAS 75 I (1983), n.1, p. 7f.