Roman Catholic Diocese of Taiohae
The Diocese of Taiohae is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in French Polynesia. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Papeete, yet still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Îles Marquises, dedicated to Mary, [mother of Jesus|Mary], mother of Jesus at Taiohae, on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands.
History
- Erected on 1848.05.09 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Marquesas Islands/ Isole Marchesi / Insularum Marchesi, on insular territory split off from the suppressed Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Oceania
- Promoted on 1966.06.21 as Diocese of Taiohae / Taiohaën
- Renamed 1974.05.31 as Diocese of Taiohae / Hakapehi / Tefenuaenata / Humanæ Telluris / Taiohaën.
Statistics
, it pastorally served 8,970 Catholics on 1,250 km² in 26 parishes with 4 priests, 11 lay religious and 1 seminarian.Bishops
Ordinaries
;Apostolic Vicars of Marquesas Islands- François Baudichon, SS.CC., Titular Bishop of Basilinopolis ; died 1882
- René Ildefonse Dordillon, SS.CC., Titular Bishop of Cambysopolis
- *Apostolic Administrator Father Rogatien-Joseph Martin, SS.CC., no previous prelature
- Rogatien-Joseph Martin, SS.CC., Titular Bishop of Verinopolis
- Pierre-Marie-David Le Cadre, Picpus Fathers, Titular Bishop of Demetrias
- Louis-Bertrand Tirilly, SS.CC., Titular Bishop of Buthrotum
- Louis-Bertrand Tirilly, SS.CC., emeritate as Titular Bishop of Budua ; died 2002
- Hervé Le Cléac'h, SS.CC., died 2012
- Guy Chevalier, SS.CC., Bishop Emeritus; succeeded as previous Coadjutor Bishop of Taiohae
- Pascal Chang-Soï, SS.CC., previously Coadjutor Bishop of Taiohae and Apostolic Administrator of Papeete .
Coadjutor bishops
- Guy André Dominique Marie Chevalier, SS.CC.
- Pascal Chang-Soï, SS.CC.