The Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral is a religious building belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and is located in the town of Buka on the south coast of the island of Buka, in the

autonomous region of Bougainville In developmental psychology and morality, moral, political, and bioethics, bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision. Autonomous organizations or institutions are independent or self-governing. Auto ...

, formerly ″province of Bougainville″ which is part of

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

a country in

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. The cathedral follows the Roman or Latin rite and depends on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bougainville (''Dioecesis Buganvillensis''), which in turn is under the responsibility of the

Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (CEP; ) was a congregation (Roman Curia), congregation of the Roman Curia of the Catholic Church in Rome, responsible for Catholic missions, missionary work and related activities. It is also kn ...

(''Congregatio pro Gentium Evangelizatione''). The ancient cathedral of the diocese was the church of St. Michael the Archangel in Tubiana, in the same province.

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Roman Catholic cathedrals in Papua New Guinea Catholic Church in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville Buka, Papua New Guinea {{Oceania-church-stub

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