The Church of Tonga (Siasi ʻo Tonga) is one of the churches in

Tonga Tonga (, ; ), officially the Kingdom of Tonga ( to, Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a Polynesian country and archipelago. The country has 171 islands – of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in ...

. It is located in the capital Nukualofa. It was established in 1929 by those members who did not agree to the unification in 1924 of the ''Wesleyan mission'' and the ''Free church'' into the

Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga The Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga (FWCT; Tongan: ''Siasi Uēsiliana Tau‘atāina ‘o Tonga'') is a Methodist denomination in Tonga. It is the largest Christian denomination in the nation and is often mistaken to be its state church. It has it ...

, and they also did not agree with the schism of 1929 when the

Free Church of Tonga The Free Church of Tonga ( Tongan: ''Siasi ʻo Tonga Tauʻatāina'') is a religious denomination of Methodist extraction in the Kingdom of Tonga. The Church was established in 1885 by King George Tupou I and his government at Lifuka, Ha'apai, as ...

broke away. So they broke away too, and were fully established the year after, 1929. To avoid confusion with the Free Church of Tonga, this church is colloquially known as the Church of the Lords. After the death of Siaosi Fīnau Mīsini in 1938, his son, Siaosi Tangata ʻo Haʻamea became the next president, until he died too in 1960. It is remarkable that despite that

Vavaʻu Vavau is an island group, consisting of one large island ( ʻUtu Vavaʻu) and 40 smaller ones, in Tonga. It is part of Vavaʻu District, which includes several other individual islands. According to tradition, the Maui god created both Tongata ...

is the estate of ʻUlukālala, the Church of Tonga is only very small there. The Current Leader of the Church is Reverend Dr Tu'ipulotu Lofitu Katoanga, who has been President of the Church since 2012 replacing Reverend Dr Tevita Feke Mafi. Dr Katoanga is a Former Principal of Tonga College, he retired from the Government's Ministry of Education to take up his post prior to his presidency which was to become the Secretary General of the Church while Dr Mafi was President. He is also a son of a Former President of the Church, the Late Reverend Finau Katoanga. The Current Secretary General of the Church is Reverend Siosiua Siola'a.

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Christian organizations established in 1928 Churches in Tonga {{oceania-church-stub