Diocese of Vanimo
The Diocese of Vanimo is a Latin Catholic suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Madang in Papua New Guinea, and depends on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Holy Cross Pro-cathedral, in Vanimo in the province of West Sepik.
Statistics
As per 2015, it pastorally served 37,765 Catholics on 26,000 km² in 13 parishes and 96 missions with 26 priests, 43 lay religious and 14 seminarians.History
- It was erected in 1963.09.13 as Apostolic Vicariate of Vanimo / Uanimitanus, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Aitape
- Promoted on 1966.11.15 as Diocese of Vanimo / Uanimitan.
Ordinaries
;Apostolic Prefect of Vanimo;Suffragan Bishops of Vanimo
- Paschal Sweeney, C.P., died 1981
- John Etheridge, C.P., died 2002
- * Apostolic Administrator Father David Wilkie, C.P., no other prelature
- Cesare Bonivento, Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions
- Francis Meli .