Diocese of Rarotonga Dioecesis Rarotongana | |
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Location | |
Country | Cook Islands, Niue |
Metropolitan | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Suva |
Statistics | |
Area | 234 km2 (90 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2017) 11,885 2,255 (19.0%) |
Parishes | 15 |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 21 June 1966 |
Cathedral | Saint Joseph's Cathedral |
Patron saint | Saint Joseph |
Secular priests | 9 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Reynaldo Bunyi Getalado |
Bishops emeritus | Paul Patrick Donoghue |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rarotonga (Latin: Dioecesis Rarotongana) in the Cook Islands is a suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Suva in neighbouring Fiji. It was erected as the Prefecture Apostolic of Cook and Manihiki in 1922, elevated to the Vicariate Apostolic of Cook Islands in 1948 and elevated as the Diocese of Rarotonga in 1966.