Pierre Auguste Antoine Marie Guichet, MSC,

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(born 21 January 1915, died 6 October 1989) was the

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of the Diocese of Tarawa from 1961 to 1978, when

Paul Mea Paul Eusebius Mea Kaiuea (16 December 1939 – 24 June 2021) was a Kiribati Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru from 1978 to 2020. Mea was born in Gilbert and Ellice Islands and was ordained in 1969 a priest of th ...

succeeded him. He was

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Stectorium Stectorium or Stektorion ( grc, Στεκτόριον) was a town of ancient Phrygia, in the Phrygian Pentapolis between Peltae and Synnada, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times. Pausanias believed that Mygdon's tomb was located here. It w ...

from 1961 to 1966 as

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of the

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, until it was elevated as the Diocese of Tarawa in

Teaoraereke Teaoraereke (in Gilbertese, the narrow surface) is a town and settlement in South Tarawa of Kiribati. It is part of a nearly continuous chain of settlements along the islands of South Tarawa, which are now linked by causeways, between Bairiki a ...

in 1966. He was ordained a priest on 24 March 1946, was the superior of the Mission of Melanesia, and consecrated bishop on 18 November 1961.

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Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru
{{DEFAULTSORT:Guichet, Pierre 1989 deaths 20th-century French Roman Catholic bishops 1915 births French Roman Catholic bishops in Oceania French expatriates in Kiribati Roman Catholic bishops of Tarawa and Nauru Missionaries of the Sacred Heart

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