Cathedral of Saint Peter the Apostle of Gizo
In Gizo, the second town of the Solomon Islands, the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle is the mother church of the diocese of Gizo, which embraces the western provinces, Choiseul and Elizabeth. Inaugurated and blessed on June 18, 1964 by Bishop E. J. Crawford, it is one of the three Catholic cathedrals in the country.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The diocese was born as an apostolic vicariate in 1959 and was raised to the diocese in 1966 by Pope Paul VI, leaving the archdiocese of Honiara as a suffranea.
- The earthquake and tsunami of April 2007 damaged the temple; the community did not surrender and remodeled it and expanded it on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation.
- En la bendición del conjunto reconstruido —catedral, salón, centro juvenil y centro de formación— se unieron los tres obispos católicos de las Salomón junto al obispo emérito Bernard O’Grady, dominico que pastoreó la diócesis.
- La sede diocesana vive literalmente al amparo del Apóstol: la casa del obispo se levanta en el recinto llamado St Peter’s Compound, corazón católico de la Provincia Occidental.
Saint Peter the Apostle
The Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle of Gizo, wounded by the 2007 tsunami and raised again for its fiftieth anniversary, is the mother church of a young Pacific diocese. From it the Catholic faith, sown by Dominican missionaries, is still alive among the western islands of Solomon.
In the faith of Saint Peter the Apostle, the rock of the Church, confirms the Pacific islands.
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