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Archdiocese of Suva (

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: ''Archidioecesis Suvana'') is a

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. It is responsible for the suffragan dioceses of

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and Tarawa and Nauru and —as of 21 March 2003—the Mission ''Sui Iuris'' of Funafuti. The archdiocese was created in 1966, to succeed the

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Bishops

Ordinaries

Bishops * (1863–1887) *

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(1887–1922) * Charles-Joseph Nicolas (1922–1941) *

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(1944–1967) Archbishops *

George Hamilton Pearce George Hamilton Pearce (January 9, 1921 – August 30, 2015) was the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Apia, Samoa, and the first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Suva, Fiji.

(1967–1976) *

Petero Mataca Petero Mataca (28 April 1933 – 30 June 2014) born at Cawaci, on Ovalau Island, served as the Roman Catholic archbishop of Suva, Fiji until his resignation in 2012. Biography After his education at St. John's College, Cawaci, he was ord ...

(1976–2012) *

Peter Loy Chong Peter Loy Chong (born 30 January 1961 in Namata, Fiji, Tailevu) is the third Catholic Archbishop of Suva, Fiji (having been consecrated bishop on 8 June 2013). He worked on his doctorate at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California ...

(since 2013)

Coadjutor vicar apostolic

* Charles-Joseph Nicolas (1918-1922)

Auxiliary bishop

(1974-1976), appointed Archbishop here

Sex abuse cases

On 13 July 2020, New Zealand's 1News revealed that of some of the clergy who were accused in 1,300 cases of sexually abusing children in the nation of Fiji were originally from New Zealand before they were transferred. The transfer of these priests is the subject of a Royal Commission investigation. Dr Murray Heasley from the Network of Survivors in Faith Based Institution told 1News that Fiji was a common place for the New Zealand Catholic Church to transfer accused Catholic clergy. Despite Archbishop Peter Loy Chong's statement that there had been no reported cases of clergy abusing children in Fiji, Australian priest Julian Fox, who was later convicted and jailed in 2015 for child sex crimes, had been transferred to Fiji in 1999 after Australian police started an investigation against him. It was also proven that the church had knowledge of sex abuse allegations against Fox nine years before he was charged.

References

Suva Suva () is the capital and largest city of Fiji. It is the home of the country's largest metropolitan area and serves as its major port. The city is located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in Rewa Province, Central Div ...

Catholic Church in Fiji

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