Parroquia de San Miguel de Luganville
In Luganville, the second city of Vanuatu, lying on the Segond channel on the island of Holy Spirit, the Catholic Church is present in the parish of San Miguel (Saint- Michel), belonging to the diocese of Port-Vila, which covers the entire archipelago. The Catholic mission was firmly rooted in the north of the country, and Holy Spirit was one of its most fruitful lands.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The parish of San Miguel is in the directory of the diocese of Port-Vila, which together with it has in Luganville with the community of Santa Teresa; in the north of the same island is also venerated to Santa Ana in Port Olry.
- The antiquity of the Saint-Michel mission next to the Segond channel is documented: the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau retains a 1956 photograph of the Catholic Church of St Michel, on the Segond Canal of Santo.
- The diocese of Port-Vila was born as an apostolic prefecture of the New Herbrids in 1901, was apostolic vicariate since 1904 and diocese since 21 June 1966; its cathedral is that of the Sacred Heart in Port-Vila and is suffranea of the archdiocese of Nouméa.
- Vanuatu's first Catholic mission was opened by the Marist parents in 1887 in Mele, on the island of Efate; the greatest growth of the Catholic faith was later in the north, especially in the Holy Spirit and Malekula.
San Miguel Archangel
In the custody of St. Michael Archangel, the Catholic community of Luganville in the Holy Spirit prolongs the work of the Marist missionaries who brought the Gospel to the ancient New Hebridas. A young and living church in the heart of the South Pacific.
In San Miguel Archangel, he defends the Pacific islands and keeps his people in faith.
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