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(CEPAC, Suva, Fiji) – The Holy Father has appointed His Excellency, the Most Reverend Susitino Sionepoe, S.M., currently bishop of Wallis and Futuna, as metropolitan archbishop of Nouméa, New Caledonia. Pope Francis has also appointed the Reverend Father Tamati Alefosio, M.S.C., currently the parish priest of Saint Peter Chanel in Samoa, as the prefect apostolic of the Marshall Islands. This announcement was published in the Daily Bulletin of the Holy See on January 14, 2025, at noon Rome time.
Bishop Susitino Sionepoe, S.M., succeeds the Most Reverend Michel-Marie-Bernard Calvet, S.M., as the Holy Father accepted the latter’s resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Noumèa. Archbishop Calvet will be eighty-one years old on April 3, 2025. Bishop Sionepe was born on January 4, 1965, and ordained priest for the Society of Mary on November 28, 1993. He was appointed bishop of Wallis and Futuna on December 24, 2018, and consecrated on March 24, 2019.
Fr. Tamati Alefosio Sefo, M.S.C., succeeds Fr. Ariel Galido, M.S.C., as prefect of the Marshall Islands. Fr. Sefo was born on April 28, 1972, in Tafitoala Safata, Samoa. He studied philosophy and theology at the Pacific Regional Seminary in Fiji. He was ordained priest on November 27, 2004. He served as a parish priest, director of formation for his congregation, and superior of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, then provincial superior for the Pacific Region from 2021-2023
PRESS RELEASE November 25, 2024 (CEPAC, Suva, Fiji) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has appointed the Very Reverend Fr. Romeo Duetao Convocar, former Apostolic Administrator and currently the Vicar-General of the Archdiocese of Agana, Guam, as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa, Northern Mariana Islands. The appointment was officially published […]
ENCYCLICAL LETTER DILEXIT NOS OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ON THE HUMAN AND DIVINE LOVE OF THE HEART OF JESUS CHRIST 1. HE LOVED US”, Saint Paul says of Christ (cf. Rom 8:37), in order to make us realize that nothing can ever “separate us” from that love (Rom 8:39). Paul could say this with certainty because Jesus […]
Tegucigalpa, 27 July 2024 Dear Brothers and Sisters, “You multiplied joy, you increased joy” (Is 9:2). At this moment of joy in the Lord when my appointment as Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand is announced, I wish to greet each of you with sincere affection. I am very grateful to Divine Providence and to the […]
