Mission sui iuris Funafuti, Tuvalu
Mission Sui Iuris of Funafuti
Funafutin(us)
Latin Church
Latin Church mission sui iuris covering Tuvalu, created 10 September 1982 when the Diocese of Tarawa, Nauru and Funafuti was divided, and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Suva since 21 March 2003. The principal church is Teone Church in Vaiaku on Fongafale; Tuvalu counted roughly 95 to 100 Catholics in 2020.
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- Established
- 1982
- Catholics
- 100
- Territory
- 26 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Ecclesiastical Superior
- Fr. Eliseo Napiere, M.S.P.
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History
Tuvalu, in Polynesia, is served by the Mission sui iuris of Funafuti (Latin: Missio Sui Iuris Funafutinum), a Latin Catholic mission sui juris, that is, a pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction. Though it depends on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, it is exceptionally not exempt: it stands instead as a suffragan of a Metropolitan archdiocese. Since 21 March 2003 that metropolitan see has been the Archdiocese of Suva; before that date it was a different see, the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia.