Archdiocese of Honiara
Honiaran(us)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Honiara, Solomon Islands
Latin-rite metropolitan archdiocese of the Solomon Islands, with origins as an apostolic prefecture in 1897 and vicariate in 1912, elevated to metropolitan archdiocese in 1978. Its seat is Holy Cross Cathedral in Honiara on Guadalcanal, and its suffragans are Gizo and Auki.
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 share
- 22.5%
- Priests
- 15
- Catholics per priest
- 4,386
- Extent
- 10,728 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 6.1
of the people living within its bounds
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).
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].