The Diocese of Vanuatu and New Caledonia is one of the nine current

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, pro ...

s 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 ...

. 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 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 ...

. The diocese's name was changed to the Diocese of Vanuatu , when the

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 no ...

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 and has a population of 18,062 as of the 2020 census. Those on Vanuatu's northern islands who regard Luganville as their b ...

List of bishops

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Anglican Church of Melanesia — Diocese of Vanuatu and New Caledonia
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