HONOLULU. - Capital (300,000 inhabitants) of the Polynesian archipelago of Hawaii (some twenty islands, of which 8 are major; in all 17,000 sq. km.), constituting since 1900 an external territory of the United States.

HONOLULU - The ecclesiastical circumscription of H.

(Enc. Catt.)

The islands are all elevated and volcanic: Mauna Loa (4,170 m.) on the largest island (Hawaii) is active. The inhabitants (503,000) are ethnically mixed: Caucasians, Japanese, Hawaiians and mestizos, Filipinos, etc. The islands produce sugar cane, coffee, tobacco and tropical fruit; their military importance (the naval base of Pearl Harbor) and commercial importance (the port of H.) is great, on account of the position they occupy in the center of the northern Pacific.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: H. G. Pratt, H.: off-shore Territory, New York 1944; B. Clark, H.: the 49th State, ibid. 1947.

Giuseppe Caraci

DIOCESE of H

The first to evangelize the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands were the missionaries of the Society of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary of the religious province of Belgium, led by Fr. A. Bachelot, who had been appointed apostolic prefect on Dec. 3, 1825. But at the end of 1827 the missionaries were expelled and deported to California. By apostolic decree of May 20, 1833, the mission of the Sandwich Islands became the base of the apostolic vicariate of Polynesia or Eastern Oceania, still entrusted to the said missionaries.

The apostolic vicariate of the Sandwich Islands was erected on Aug. 13, 1844. On Jan. 25, 1941, the diocese of H. was erected as a suffragan of San Francisco.

The diocese has an area of 20,480 sq. km. with a population of 522,000 inhabitants, of whom 145,000 are Catholics (1948); it has 105 churches, 4 chapels, 60 missions, 50 parishes, 5 diocesan priests and 113 regulars; 5 male and 8 female religious communities; a diocesan seminary, 6 high schools, 20 parochial elementary schools; in 1946 there were 635 conversions.

The Cathedral is dedicated to Our Lady of Peace.

Bibliography

BIBL.: J. C. Beissel, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XIII, pp. 438-39.

Enrico Josi

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