Paul Eusebius Mea Kaiuea

Paul Eusebius Mea Kaiuea (born 16 December 1939) has been the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru since 1978. Kaiuea was born in Kiribati and was ordained a priest in 1969. In 1978 he succeeded French-born Pierre-Auguste-Antoine-Marie Guichet as the bishop of the diocese when it encompassed all of Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu. In 1982, Tuvalu was removed from the jurisdiction of the diocese.