Cathedral of Santa Maria de Lae
The Cathedral of Santa Maria de Lae is the mother church of the diocese of Lae in the province of Morobe, the second city of Papua New Guinea. Its patron is the Blessed Virgin Mary, and from it there is a territory of almost 37,000 km ² with 24 parishes.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The diocese was born as an apostolic vicariate in 1959 and was raised to the diocese on November 15, 1966, leaving the archdiocese of Madang as a suffranea.
- Some 49,000 Catholics live in the diocese, a minority entrusted to an immense territory, served by a long twenty priests, many of them missionary religious.
- His present pastor, Bishop Rozario Menezes, belongs to the Montfortian Missionaries, the Society of Mary founded by Saint Louis Mary Grignion of Montfort, a great apostle of the consecration to the Virgin.
- The cathedral keeps the cult alive week by week, with Sunday masses that bring together the Catholic community of the great port city of the Gulf of Huon.
Santa Maria
Under the protection of Santa Maria, the Lae Cathedral brings together the Catholic community of the second city of Papua New Guinea. The young and missionary Diocese, today led by a son of St Louis Mary of Montfort, lives his faith as a minority entrusted to the care of the Mother of God.
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