Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia
Samoa-Apian(us)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Samoa-Apia, Samoa
The Latin rite Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia covers the Independent State of Samoa. Erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of the Navigators' Archipelago on 20 August 1850, it was elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on 10 September 1982, with the Diocese of Samoa-Pago Pago and the Mission Sui Iuris of Tokelau as suffragans. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Apia.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 26 June 1992
- Latin
- Samoa-Apian(us)
- Annuario code
- 001002864
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 42,500
- Population
- 189,000
- Catholic share
- 22.5%
- Priests
- 74
- Catholics per priest
- 574
- Extent
- 2,922 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 15
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
- Mosese Vitolio Tui, SDB
- Born
- 9 November 1961
- Birthplace
- Apia
- Institute
- SOCIETÀ SALESIANA DI S. GIOVANNI BOSCO (SALESIANI) (S.D.B.)
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 Immaculate Conception, Apia stands in Samoa-Apia, 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
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Samoa-Pago PagoSamoa-Pago Pago
- Mission Sui Iuris of TokelauTokelau
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The whole of the Independent State of Samoa forms the territory of the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia (Latin: Archidioecesis Samoa-Apiana; Samoan: Puleaga Fa'aAkiepikopo Samoa-Apia), a Latin Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Archbishop’s House, St. Anne's Building, Mulivai, Apia, Samoa
- Telephone
- 20.400
- [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].