Archdiocese of Honiara

The see

Rank

Metropolitan see

Tradition

Latin Church

Erected

15 November 1978

Latin

Honiaran(us)

Patron

The Holy Cross

Annuario code

001001609

The see in figures

Catholics

65,783

Population

292,000

Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds

22.5%

Priests

15

Catholics per priest

4,386

Extent

10,728 km²

Catholics per km²

6.1

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Archbishop

Christopher Michael Cardone, O.P.

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Holy Cross Cathedral, Honiara stands in Honiara, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Honiara

This see is the metropolitan of its province.

The sees of this province:

• Diocese of AukiAuki
• Diocese of GizoGizo

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

In the Solomon Islands, the Archdiocese of Honiara is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church, heir to the apostolic prefecture of the British Solomon Islands erected in 1897. When Pope John Paul II created the ecclesiastical province of Honiara in 1978, it was the first such creation of his pontificate; the province contains two suffragan sees, Gizo (1966, formerly the Vicariate Apostolic of Western Solomon Islands) and Auki (1982).

Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.