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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia (; Samoan: ''Puleaga'' ''Fa'aAkiepikopo Samoa-Apia'') consists of the Independent State of Samoa.


History

In 1842, the Propaganda Fide created the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Oceania that included New Caledonia, Tonga, Samoa and Fiji Islands. This lost territory with establishment by
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by the
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on August 20, 1850, of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Navigators' Archipelago, entrusted to the
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. On January 4, 1957, the Vatican changed the name of the Vicariate Apostolic to Samoa and the Tokelau Islands. The vicariate apostolic was elevated to the Diocese of Apia on June 21, 1966, and made suffragan to the metropolitan see of
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. On August 10, 1974, the name of the diocese was changed to Diocese of Apia o Samoa and Tokelau; and it was changed again on December 3, 1975, to the Diocese of Samoa and Tokelau. On September 10, 1982, the diocese was elevated to the dignity of an archdiocese taking the name of the See city,
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. Simultaneously, the Diocese of Samoa–Pago Pago was created from a portion of the former Diocese of Samoa Tokelau and made suffragan to the metropolitan see of Apia. On 24 April 2023, Archbishop Alapati Lui Mataeliga was airlifted to
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, in
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and died in the early hours of the following morning.


Ordinaries

* Guillaume Marie Douarre S.M. (1850-1853) *
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, S.M.(1853–1870) * Aloys Elloy, S.M. (1870–1878) * Jean-Armand Lamaze, S.M. (1879–1896) * S. M. (1896–1918)Biography about Mgr Pierre-Jean Broyer in the article dedicated to his birthplace on the French Wikipedia. :fr:Illiat *
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S. M. (1919–1953) * S. M. (1953–1955) * George Hamilton Pearce S. M. (1956–1967), appointed Archbishop of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania) * Pio Taofinu'u S. M. (1968–2002), elevated to Cardinal in 1973 * Alapati Lui Mataeliga (2002–2023) *
Mosese Vitolio Tui Mosese Vitolio Tui (born November 9, 1961) is a Samoan priest of the Catholic Church who serves as archbishop for the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia and Ecclesiastical Superior of the Mission sui iuris of Tokelau. Biography Tui was born on Novembe ...
(2024-present)


Ecclesiastical province

:''See: Ecclesiastical Province of Samoa-Apia.'' As the metropolitan see, the archdiocese has two suffragans: the Diocese of Samoa–Pago Pago and the Mission ''Sui Iuris'' of Tokelau. Until March 2003, the Mission ''Sui Iuris'' of Funafuti was also a suffragan, but since that date it is now a suffragan of the
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.


See also

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* Ecclesiastical Province of Samoa-Apia *
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References


Further reading

* ''Galuega O Le Sinoti'' (''Acts of the Snyod'' 'of the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia'', December 7–14, 1990, promulgated, May 1, 1991, Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker. Apia, Samoa.


External links


Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia Official Site
Religious organizations established in 1850 Samoa-Apia Samoa-Apia Roman Catholic dioceses in Samoa 1850s establishments in Samoa {{Samoa-stub