Diocese of Port-Vila
Portus Vilen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Port-Vila, Vanuatu
The Latin rite Diocese of Port-Vila covers the entire island nation of Vanuatu. Erected as the Apostolic Prefecture of the New Hebrides on 9 February 1901, raised to an Apostolic Vicariate in 1904, it became a diocese on 21 June 1966 under Pope Paul VI and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Noumea. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Port-Vila.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 21 June 1966
- Latin
- Portus Vilen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002654
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 29,500
- Population
- 205,000
- Catholic share
- 14.4%
- Priests
- 29
- Catholics per priest
- 1,017
- Extent
- 11,870 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.5
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
- Bishop
- Jean Bosco Baremes, SM
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
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Port-Vila stands in Port-Vila, 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 Noumea
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Noumea.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of NouméaNouméa
- Diocese of Wallis et FutunaWallis et Futuna
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Vanuatu's Diocese of Port-Vila (Latin: Dioecesis Portus Vilensis; French: Diocèse de Port-Vila) is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Nouméa, with a territory embracing the whole island of Vanuatu.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 59, Port-Vila, Vanuatu
- Telephone
- 22.640
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery 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.
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 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
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].