Diocese of Auki, Solomon Islands 🇸🇧

Continent: Oceania

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Auki / Aukin(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Honiara

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1982.12.17: Established as Diocese of Auki / Aukin(us) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Honiara and became suffragan of Honiara)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2025.10.28 – ...):

Bishop-elect Jacob Aba, S.M. (50)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Auki (Roman Rite)

Bishop-elect Jacob Aba, S.M. (50)
(2025.10.28 – ...)

Bishop of Auki (Solomon Islands)

Born:	1976.01.06 (Matanganakafo, Solomon Islands)
Ordained Priest:	2009.12.10

Bishop of Auki (Solomon Islands) (2025.10.28 – ...)

Bishop Peter Houhou (59)
(2018.07.03 – 2023.06.16)

Bishop of Gizo (Solomon Islands)

I came not to be served but to serve

Born:	1966.10.10 (Marau, Solomon Islands)
Ordained Priest:	1999.07.03
Consecrated Bishop:	2018.10.14

Priest of Honiara (Solomon Islands) (1999.07.03 – 2018.07.03)

Bishop of Auki (Solomon Islands) (2018.07.03 – 2023.06.16)

Bishop of Gizo (Solomon Islands) (2023.06.16 – ...)

Bishop Christopher Michael Cardone, O.P. (68) (later Archbishop)
(2004.10.19 – 2016.06.22)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Honiara (Solomon Islands)

Born:	1957.12.20 (Long Island, NY, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1986.05.30
Consecrated Bishop:	2001.06.09

Titular Bishop of Thuburnica (2001.03.27 – 2004.10.19)

Auxiliary Bishop of Gizo (Solomon Islands) (2001.03.27 – 2004.10.19)

Bishop of Auki (Solomon Islands) (2004.10.19 – 2016.06.22)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Honiara (Solomon Islands) (2016.06.22 – ...)

Bishop Gerard Francis Loft, S.M.
(1983.12.05 – 2004.10.19)

Born:	1933.04.06 (Wellington, New Zealand)
Ordained Priest:	1958.07.20
Consecrated Bishop:	1984.03.11
Died:	2007.02.04 († 73)

Bishop of Auki (Solomon Islands) (1983.12.05 – 2004.10.19)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Augustine Cathedral, Auki, Malaita

Churches by City (12)

Honiara (↙), Gizo (←), Tarawa and Nauru (↗), Port-Vila (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 4,234 km²

Population: 51,836 Catholics (31.5% of 164,345 total)

Pastoral Centres: 13 parishes, 1 mission

Personnel: 36 priests (34 diocesan, 2 religious), 20 religious (2 brothers, 18 sisters), 12 seminarians