03190ntc a22002297i 4500001000700000008004100007040002600048100004400074245003900118264001400157300004700171336002100218337002300239338003200262500002000294506031900314520019300633533007700826540037000903545152401273856016302797235698211104k18421964xx            000 0|eng d  aANU:PMBcANU:PMBerda1 aOceania Marist Province Archivesd1898-10aCatholic Diocese of Tonga, Reel 11  c1842-1964  a* 1 reel; 35mm microfilm. * 1 Digital PDF.  atext2rdacontent  acomputer2rdamedia  aonline resource2rdacarrier  aAU PMB OMPA-011  aAvailable for reference. Special authorisation is to be sought from the Oceania Marist Province Archives to publish entities such as diaries or whole sets of correspondence. Documents more recent than 50 years old and which are not of a public character are not to be published without the owner's permission.2 aE.5. 44-45-46: Financial matters of the Vicariate, continued. -- E.5. 60: General statistics of the Vicariate. -- E.6. 10: Circular letters. -- E.8. 2: Miscellaneous papers, re: Vicariate.  aElectronic reproduction:bCanberra :cPacific Manuscripts Bureau, d2021  aAvailable for reference. Special authorisation is to be sought from the Oceania Marist Province Archives to publish entities such as diaries or whole sets of correspondence. Documents more recent than 50 years old and which are not of a public character are not to be published without the owner's permission.uhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/copyright.php0 aThe Marist Order (Society of Mary) was canonically approved in April 1836 after the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome had sought means of evangelising the western half of the Pacific. The eastern half had been entrusted to the Sacred Heart (Picpus) Order in 1833. The Marists, originally an informal group of diocesan priests, accepted the task in the Western Pacific, provided they were recognised as an independent religious order. The first Marists sailed for the Pacific in December 1836 under the leadership of Bishop Jean-Baptiste Pompallier. The Bishop established his headquarters in New Zealand while some of his missionaries were left on the islands of Wallis and Futuna. However, the huge vicariate under Pompallier’s care soon proved too large to be practicable and in 1842 part of it was carved off to form the Vicariate of Central Oceania. This new vicariate comprised the islands of Wallis, Futuna, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Samoa, Tokelau, Fiji, Rotuma, Niue and the Gilbert Islands. A few years later, before any Marist missionaries had set foot there, the Gilbert Islands were made part of a new vicariate of Micronesia. In 1898, the Marists working in Wallis & Futuna, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Bougainville were formally constituted into the Province of Oceania. The provincial administration was established in Sydney and remained there until 1971, when the headquarters was transferred to Suva, Fiji.41uhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/digital/catalogue/index.php/catholic-diocese-of-tonga-reel-11zView this item in the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Catalogue.