Diocese of Honolulu Dioecesis Honoluluensis |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | State of Hawaiʻi, Unincorporated Hawaiian Islands |
Ecclesiastical province | Archdiocese of San Francisco |
Statistics | |
Area | 6,435 sq mi (16,670 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2013) 1,325,000 263,000 (19.8%) |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | January 25, 1941 |
Cathedral | Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace |
Co-cathedral | Co-Cathedral of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus |
Patron saint | Our Lady of Peace, Saint Damien of Molokaʻi, Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Bishop of Honolulu |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Archbishop of San Francisco |
Map | |
Website | |
Catholic Hawaiʻi |
The Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, officially in Latin Dioecesis Honoluluensis, is an ecclesiastical territory or particular church of the Catholic Church in the United States. The diocese comprises the entire state of Hawaiʻi and the unincorporated Hawaiian Islands.
The diocese is suffragan to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San Francisco and a part of the ecclesiastical province that includes the San Francisco archdiocese and the suffragan dioceses of Las Vegas, Oakland, Reno, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Jose, Santa Rosa and . The patrons of the Diocese of Honolulu are the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of Malia O Ka Malu or Our Lady Queen of Peace, Saint Damien of Molokaʻi, and Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi.