Msgr. Giovanni Battista Dieter, S.M., D.D., Vicar Apostolic of the Navigators' Archipelago, was born in Kleinhausen (

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) on 30 September 1903. He professed the evangelical counsels on 17 April 1929 for the Society of Mary (Marists). He was subsequently ordained to the

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for the Marists on 29 June 1933. He was consecrated to the

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as Titular Bishop of Ierafi and Vicar Apostolic of the Navigators' Archipelago on 19 May 1954. He died in

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, New Zealand on 29 June 1955.

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''Galuega O Le Sinoti'' (''Acts of the Snyod of the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia''), 7–14 December 1990, promulgated 1 May 1991, Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker. Apia, Samoa. 1903 births 1955 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic titular bishops 20th-century German Roman Catholic bishops Samoan Roman Catholic bishops 20th-century German Roman Catholic priests {{Germany-RC-bishop-stub