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Diocese Of Vanuatu And New Caledonia
The Diocese of Vanuatu and New Caledonia is one of the nine current dioceses of the Anglican Church of Melanesia. It is one of the four original founding dioceses of the Church, erected in 1975 as the Diocese of the New Hebrides and inaugurated in 1975 at Lolowai on Aoba Island. The diocese's name was changed to the Diocese of Vanuatu , when the Republic of Vanuatu gained its independence; Footnote 47 the name was changed again, around 2010, to the Diocese of Vanuatu and New Caledonia. The diocese has eight regions and 39 parishes and is headquartered in Luganville
Luganville is the second largest city in Vanuatu after the capital Port Vila; it is located on the island of Espiritu Santo a ...
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Diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the Roman diocese, diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek language, Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into Roman diocese, dioceses based on the Roman diocese, civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the Roman province, provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's State church of the Roman Empire, official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine the Great, Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Church Of Melanesia
The Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACoM), also known as the Church of the Province of Melanesia and the Church of Melanesia (COM), is a church of the Anglican Communion and includes nine dioceses in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. The Archbishop of Melanesia is Leonard Dawea. He succeeds the retired archbishop George Takeli. History The church was established by George Selwyn in 1849, and was initially headed by a Bishop of Melanesia. One of the important features of the province's life over many years has been the work of a mission vessel in various incarnations known as the ''Southern Cross''. First based in New Zealand, the missionaries, mainly from Oxbridge and the public schools, established their base on Norfolk Island, bringing Melanesian scholars there to learn Christianity until the school was closed in 1918. The many languages in Melanesia made evangelisation a challenge. The Melanesian Mission adopted the language of the island of Mota in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aoba Island
Ambae Island, also known as Aoba, Omba, Oba, or Opa and formerly Lepers’ Island, is an island in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, located near , approximately north-northwest of Vanuatu's capital city, Port Vila. History First recorded sighting by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernández de Quirós in the spring of 1606. The misty sight of Ambae from neighbouring Espiritu Santo, which served as a major World War II airbase, inspired the mythical Bali Ha'i in James Michener's ''Tales of the South Pacific''. Geography Rough, black basalt stones compose its shoreline and surface in many places, though the soils (where present) are rich. The island appears to be covered in nearly unbroken vegetation; inhabited areas feature large gardens and managed forests above, with coconut and cacao plantations usually closer to shore. There are no reliable sources of surface water (rivers, streams, or lakes), save the crater lakes which are inaccessible. Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesians, Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island, Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish East Indies, and named it . In the 1880s, France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom claimed parts of the archipelago, and in 1906, they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through an Anglo-French condominiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luganville
Luganville is the second largest city in Vanuatu after the capital Port Vila; it is located on the island of Espiritu Santo and has a population of 18,062 as of the 2020 census. Those on Vanuatu's northern islands who regard Luganville as their big city, particularly indigenous populations, call it Santo; rural residents of Espiritu Santo call it Kanal (from French "second canal"). Luganville served as a major base of operations for American troops during World War II. Boulevard Higinson, the main street that runs through Luganville, contains mainly tourist boutiques and general stores. During WWII, the Americans used the Espiritu Santo as a military base; as a result of the occupation, Boulevard Higinson is unusually wide, as a base commander insisted that four tanks should be able to drive along the road simultaneously. At one end of Higinson is the port, one of two main ports for the island. History World War II During World War II, the American military erected two bases on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Rawcliffe
Derek Alec Rawcliffe OBE (8 July 1921 – 1 February 2011) was an English Anglican bishop and author. He served as the Bishop of the New Hebrides and the Scottish Episcopal Church's Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway. Life and ministry Rawcliffe was born in Manchester, the son of a tobacconist, on 8 July 1921. He was brought up in Gloucester and educated at Leeds University.Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 He was ordained deacon in 1944 and priest in 1945. After a curacy at Claines St George, Worcester between 1944 and 1947, he became a teacher in the Solomon Islands until 1953 when he became Archdeacon of Southern Melanesia and the New Hebrides. He was Assistant Bishop of Melanesia between 1974 and 1975, and then became the first Bishop of the New Hebrides, serving from 1975 to 1980 when he was translated to Glasgow and Galloway, in the Scottish Episcopal Church on 20 January 1981. In Scotland. He retired on 28 February 1991. After retirement he was made an honorary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of Melanesia
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into dioceses based on the civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situation must have hardly survived Julian, 361–363. Episcopal courts are not heard of again in the East until 398 and in the West in 408. The quality of these courts was l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Tevi
Harry Sivehi Tevi (died 14 May 2012) was the second Anglican Bishop of Vanuatu He trained for the priesthood at St Peter's College, Siota and was ordained in 1969. He was a Lecturer at the Bishop Patteson Theological College in Honiara Honiara () is the capital and largest city of Solomon Islands, situated on the northwestern coast of Guadalcanal. , it had a population of 92,344 people. The city is served by Honiara International Airport and the seaport of Point Cruz, and lie .... He was consecrated a bishop in February 1979, to serve as an Assistant Bishop of the New Hebrides; he was then elected diocesan Bishop of the New Hebrides on 1 February 1980 and installed the next day. Notes 4 The diocese's name was changed to Vanuatu that year, around the time of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Tavoa
Michael Henry Tavoa was the third Bishop of Vanuatu, one of the nine dioceses that make up the Anglican Church of Melanesia The Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACoM), also known as the Church of the Province of Melanesia and the Church of Melanesia (COM), is a church of the Anglican Communion and includes nine dioceses in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledoni .... References 2018 deaths 20th-century Anglican bishops in Oceania Anglican bishops of New Hebrides, Vanuatu and New Caledonia Diocese of Vanuatu and New Caledonia Vanuatuan Anglican priests Year of birth missing {{Vanuatu-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Blessing-Boe
Hugh Blessing-Boe (died 16 January 2018) was the fourth Bishop of Vanuatu, one of the nine dioceses that make up the Anglican Church of Melanesia. He comes from the island of Maewo in Vanuatu. His father Walter Boesel is from Navenvene village in Central Maewo and his mother Elenor Boesel is from Talise village also in Central Maewo and she is partly of European decent. He was Principal of the Bishop Patteson Theological College from 1986 to 1995; He was consecrated bishop on 29 June 2000 and served as Bishop of Vanuatu until his retirement in June 2006. He has degrees from the Universities of Birmingham and Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po .... References 20th-century Anglican bishops in Oceania Vanuatuan Anglican priests Anglican bishops of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ligo
James Marvin Ligo (died December 2017) was the Anglican Bishop of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, one of the eight dioceses that make up the Anglican Church of Melanesia The Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACoM), also known as the Church of the Province of Melanesia and the Church of Melanesia (COM), is a church of the Anglican Communion and includes nine dioceses in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledoni .... He was consecrated and installed as ''Bishop of Vanuatu'' on 15 October 2006; the name of his diocese was changed during his time, so he became ''Bishop of Vanuatu and New Caledonia''; he was succeeded as bishop by James Tama. Ligo was also the Chairman of the Vanuatu Christian Council. References Year of birth missing 20th-century births 2017 deaths 21st-century Anglican bishops in Oceania Anglican bishops of New Hebrides, Vanuatu and New Caledonia {{Anglican-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tama
James Tama has been the Anglican Bishop of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, one of the nine dioceses that make up the Anglican Church of Melanesia, since 2018. Tama was born on Ambae Island and educated at the Pacific Theological College, Fiji. His posts have included being Deputy Principal of the Bishop Patteson Theological College, Principal of the Fisher Young School of Theology and Ministry based in the Diocese of Banks and Torres and Assistant Mission Secretary of the Anglican Church of Melanesia The Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACoM), also known as the Church of the Province of Melanesia and the Church of Melanesia (COM), is a church of the Anglican Communion and includes nine dioceses in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledoni .... References Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Anglican bishops in Oceania Anglican bishops of New Hebrides, Vanuatu and New Caledonia Academic staff of Bishop Patteson Theological College Living people Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
