The Santa Remedios Church is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the island of

Saipan Saipan ( ch, Sa’ipan, cal, Seipél, formerly in es, Saipán, and in ja, 彩帆島, Saipan-tō) is the largest island of the Northern Mariana Islands, a Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), commonwealth of the United States in the western Pa ...

in the

Northern Mariana Islands The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; ch, Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; cal, Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas), is an unincorporated territory and commonw ...

, a dependent territory of the

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in the

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and part of

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History

The church was inaugurated and dedicated to the

Virgen de los Remedios The Virgin of Los Remedios ( es, La Virgen de los Remedios) or Our Lady of Los Remedios ( pt, Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, es, Nuestra Señora de los Remedios) is a title of the Virgin Mary developed by the Trinitarian Order, founded in the lat ...

(Our Lady of Remedies or locally: ''Nuestra Senora Bithen de los Remedios'') officially in October 1958, following the Roman or Latin rite and depends on the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa (''Dioecesis Vialembensis'') which was created in 1984 by

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

by ''Properamus'' bull. Its entrance is adorned with palm trees and gardens. The building was renovated in 1995 and rededicated on the feast of ''"Santa Remedios"''.

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Roman Catholic churches in the Northern Mariana Islands Buildings and structures in Saipan Roman Catholic churches completed in 1958 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings {{Oceania-church-stub

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