Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Bougainville

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bougainville

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bougainville

Roman Catholic diocese in Papua New Guinea

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bougainville is a suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rabaul. It was erected as the Prefecture Apostolic of German Solomon Islands in 1898 and elevated to a Vicariate Apostolic in 1930. It was further elevated in 1966 to the Diocese of Bougainville.

Coat of arms of the diocese since 2020

The diocesan cathedral is the Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, Buka. It was previously the Church of St. Michael the Archangel at the former Tubiana mission.[1][2]

Bishops

Ordinaries

Auxiliary bishop

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

  • Peter Kurongku, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands in 1978
  • "Diocese of Bougainville". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-01-10.
  • "Bishop Bernard Unabali". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-01-10.

5.4294°S 154.6710°E / -5.4294; 154.6710

References

  1. [1]
    "Diocese of Bougainville". GCatholic.org. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  2. [2]
    Laracy, Hugh. “The Pacification of Southern Bougainville, 1900–30.” Bougainville before the Conflict, edited by Anthony J. Regan and Helga M. Griffin ANU Press, 2015, pp. 108–124.


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