The Christ the King Church Also called the Catholic Church of Christ the King or simply Catholic Church of Arubo, is a religious building affiliated with the

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located in the town of Arubo in the district of Ewa north of the island of

Nauru Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Ki ...

, a Country of

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. The church follows the Roman or Latin rite and is within the Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru (''Dioecesis Taravanus et Naurunus'') which began as an apostolic vicariate in 1897 and was elevated to its current status in November 1966 by the bull "Prophetarum voes" of the

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. In 2014, the church held a religious service of various Christian denominations to commemorate the World Day of Disabled Persons, and by January 2016 the church was selected as one of the places where the 48th anniversary of the Independence of Nauru from Australia.

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Roman Catholic churches in Nauru {{Oceania-church-stub

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