Mission Sui Iuris of Tokelau
Tokelaun(us)
Mission sui iuris · Latin Church · Tokelau
Latin Church mission sui iuris covering the New Zealand territory of Tokelau, formed in 1992 when the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia and Tokelau was split. It lies within the province of Samoa-Apia; the principal church is on the predominantly Catholic atoll of Nukunonu, with services in the Tokelau language.
The see
- Rank
- Mission sui iuris
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 26 June 1992
- Latin
- Tokelaun(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000528
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 650
- Priests
- 3
- Catholics per priest
- 217
- Extent
- 10 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 65
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
- Ecclesiastical Superior
- Mosese Vitolio Tui
- Born
- 9 November 1961
- Birthplace
- Apia
- Institute
- SOCIETÀ SALESIANA DI S. GIOVANNI BOSCO (SALESIANI)
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
iglesia del Sagrado Corazón stands in Tokelau, 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 Samoa-Apia
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Samoa-ApiaSamoa-Apia
- Diocese of Samoa-Pago PagoSamoa-Pago Pago
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Tokelau's Catholics are served by the Mission sui iuris of Tokelau (Latin: Missio Sui Iuris Tokelaunum), a Latin Catholic mission suffragan to the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia. It came into being in 1992, when the former Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia and Tokelau was divided into the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia and this mission.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catholic Mission, Nukunonu, Tokelau, via Apia, Samoa, South Pacific
- Telephone
- [0690]22.4160
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.