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Samoa Mission Office ca 1902. The Samoa Apia Mission was formed June 17, 1888 and serves as the only mission for the Samoan Islands. Temples. Apia. Pago Pago.
The geographical area a mission actually covers is typically much larger than the name may indicate; most areas of the world are within the jurisdiction of a mission of the church. In the list below, if the name of the mission does not include a specific city, the city where the mission headquarters is located is included in parentheses.
According to Samoa's 2016 census there were 36,766 Catholics in Samoa, out of a total population of 195,979. [2] The population of Samoa is about 99% Christian. [3] According to the CIA World Fact Book, in the 2001 census, Catholics accounted for 19.6% of the population, being the second largest Christian denomination after Congregationalist at ...
See: Ecclesiastical Province of Samoa-Apia. As the metropolitan see, the archdiocese has two suffragans: the Diocese of Samoa–Pago Pago and the Mission Sui Iuris of Tokelau. Until March 2003, the Mission Sui Iuris of Funafuti was also a suffragan, but since that date it is now a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Suva.
The Roman Catholic Mission Sui Iuris of Tokelau (Latin: Missio Sui Iuris Tokelaunum) in Tokelau is a suffragan mission of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia. It was formed in 1992 when the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia and Tokelau was split into the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia and the Mission Sui Iuris of Tokelau. The Nukunonu Church
He served as president of the Samoa Apia Mission from 2008 to 2011. [1] He was in that capacity when he was called as a general authority and member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy in April 2011. After becoming a general authority, Haleck moved from Pago Pago, American Samoa to Salt Lake City, Utah. From the time of his call to August 2013 ...
The modern city of Apia was founded in the 1850s, and it has been the official capital of Samoa since 1959. [3] Seumanutafa Pogai was high chief until his death in 1898. The harbour was the site of a notorious 15 March 1889 naval standoff in which seven ships — from Germany, the US, and Britain — refused to leave the harbour, even though a ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Samoa. There are currently 6 diplomatic missions in Apia (not including honorary consulates).