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Fiji Primary In 1975, the church-owned Fiji Technical College, now called the Church College of Fiji was opened. The first stake in Fiji, the Suva Fiji Stake was organized 12 June 1983, with Inosi Naga as president. A stake was later created in Viti Levu, with districts created in Vanua Levu and Taveuni due to congregation and membership expansion.
The Suva Fiji Stake, the country's first, was organized 12 June 1983, with Inosi Naga as president. Stakes were later created in Viti Levu and districts in Vanua Levu and Taveuni as membership grew. The number of congregations increased from 19 t0 41 in the 1990s.
The Marshall Islands is currently located in the Suva Fiji Temple District. Construction on the Yigo Guam Temple started on May 4, 2019, and on October 4, 2020 the Tarawa Kiribati Temple was announced by Church President Russell M. Nelson bringing the nearest location of a temple closer.
The Port Vila Vanuatu Stake was created on Sunday June 21, 2015 with 2,000 in attendance. ... Missionaries from the Fiji Suva mission first arrived in Vanuatu in 1974.
In addition to the LDS Church's stories about people sailing to the New World, there is also the story of Hagoth (/ ˈ h eɪ.ɡ ɑː θ / [a]), a Nephite ship builder who according to The Book of Mormon lived in or around 55 BCE, [12] and whom some church publications have stated sailed from the Americas to Polynesia.
Suva Central Business District in the 1950s Suva, Fiji, c. 1920. In 1868, when Suva was still a small village, the Bauan chieftain, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, granted 5,000 km 2 (1,900 sq mi) of land to the Australian-based Polynesia Company, in exchange for the company's promise to pay off debts owed to the United States.
The diocese's cathedral is Holy Trinity Cathedral in Suva, Fiji. Polynesia is a diocese, and its Bishop is automatically accorded the style archbishop and the formal prefix Most Reverend . Under the new model of leadership now adopted by the Anglican Church in New Zealand, the Bishop of Polynesia is automatically one of the three co-presiding ...
L. Tom Perry organized the Tarawa Kiribati Stake, with Atunibeia Mote sustained as president. [7] Seminary began on Kiribati in March 1997. On May 23, 1999, the Kiritimati Island Branch was created. On 26 January 2000, church president Gordon B. Hinckley, on a tour of Pacific Rim countries, visited members at Tarawa.