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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rarotonga (Latin: Dioecesis Rarotongana) in the Cook Islands is a suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Suva in neighbouring Fiji. It was erected as the Prefecture Apostolic of Cook and Manihiki in 1922, elevated to the Vicariate Apostolic of Cook Islands in 1948 and elevated as the ...
- St. Joseph's Cathedral, Avarua
The cathedral is the mother church of the Catholic Diocese...
- St. Joseph's Cathedral, Avarua
Paul Donoghue SM (born 18 January 1949) is the sixth Catholic Bishop of Rarotonga (2011–present) in the Cook Islands. He was appointed bishop by Pope Benedict XVI on 11 April 2011.
General Information. Type of Jurisdiction: Diocese. Elevated: 21 June 1966. Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Suva. Rite: Latin (or Roman) Country: Cook Islands. Region: Pacific (Oceania) Square Kilometers: 234 (90 Square Miles) Official Web Site: https://www.catholiccookislands.co.ck.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Suva (Latin: Archidioecesis Suvana) is a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Fiji. It is responsible for the suffragan dioceses of Rarotonga and Tarawa and Nauru and —as of 21 March 2003—the Mission Sui Iuris of Funafuti .
On 16 March 1528, the diocese of Rapolla was united with the diocese of Melfi, aeque personalities. [12] There was an evangelical church in Rapolla. In 1933 it was staffed by a former Roman Catholic priest, Antonio Fegatelli. [13] On 30 September 1986, Pope John Paul II ordered that the dioceses of Melfi, Rapolla, and Venosa be merged into one ...
Rarotonga is a kidney-shaped volcanic island, 32 km (20 mi) in circumference, and 11.2 km (7.0 mi) wide on its longest (east-west) axis. The island is the summit of an extinct Pliocene or Pleistocene volcano, which rises 5000 meters from the seafloor. [4]
The cathedral is the mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Rarotonga (Dioecesis Rarotongana) which has jurisdiction over the Cook Islands and Niue and which was created as an apostolic prefecture in 1922 being elevated to its present status in 1966 by The bull "Prophetarum voces" of Pope Paul VI.
