Diocese of Malaita
The Diocese of Malaita is one of the nine current dioceses of the Anglican Church of Melanesia. One of the four original ACOM dioceses, Malaita diocese was erected in January 1975; it is currently subdivided into six regions of 46 parishes.
List of bishops
| Bishops of Malaita | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
| 1975 | 1981 | Leonard Alufurai | First bishop; consecrated assistant bishop in the Diocese of Melanesia on 30 November 1963.[1] |
| 1982 | 1989 | Willie Pwaisiho | Second bishop. |
| 1990 | 1994 | Raymond Aumae | Third bishop; consecrated and installed on 20 May 1990.[2] |
| 1996 | 2008 | Terry Brown | Fourth bishop; consecrated and installed on 26 May 1996.[3][4] |
| 2008 | present | Sam Sahu | Fifth bishop; consecrated and installed on 2 November 2008.[5] |
| Assistant bishops | |||
| 2005 | 2017 | Alfred Hou | Consecrated 27 November 2005[6] |
| 2017 | present | Rickson Maomaoru | Consecrated 22 October 2017.[7] |
References
- ^ Solomon Encyclopedia — Alufurai, Leonard (Accessed 4 September 2016)
- ^ List of small publications in the Archives of the Anglican Church of Melanesia (in the National Archives of Solomon Islands) p. 16. (Accessed 30 August 2016)
- ^ Small publications, p. 20. (Accessed 30 August 2016)
- ^ https://anglicat.kinderlibrary.ac.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=367386
- ^ Small publications, p. 33. (Accessed 30 August 2016)
- ^ Anglican Communion News Service, 1 July 2005 — New Assistant Bishop for Diocese of Malaita (Accessed 18 February 2020)
- ^ Anglican Church of Melanesian — ACOM Consecrates Maomaoru as Assistant Bishop of Malaita (Accessed 18 February 2020)
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