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The Samoan Islands has the second most LDS Church members per capita in the world, behind Tonga. [ 7 ] As of 2022, the LDS Church reported 87,695 members in 165 congregations in the country of Samoa , making it the largest body of LDS Church members in Oceania outside of Australia and New Zealand .
The geographical area a mission actually covers is typically much larger than the name may indicate; most areas of the world are within the jurisdiction of a mission of the church. In the list below, if the name of the mission does not include a specific city, the city where the mission headquarters is located is included in parentheses.
He served as president of the Samoa Apia Mission from 2008 to 2011. [1] He was in that capacity when he was called as a general authority and member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy in April 2011. After becoming a general authority, Haleck moved from Pago Pago, American Samoa to Salt Lake City, Utah. From the time of his call to August 2013 ...
The Apia Samoa Temple (formerly the Samoan Temple) is the 24th constructed and 22nd operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was the first built in Samoa and the third to be built in Polynesia. After it was destroyed by fire, a new temple was built and dedicated on the same grounds.
Its first non-English-speaking mission was in the region in 1844, [3] ... Samoa: Apia Samoa Temple: edit: Apia, Samoa August 5, 1983 18,691 sq ft 1,736.5 m 2:
Alapati Lui Mataeliga (4 January 1953 – 25 April 2023) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Samoa-Apia and Ecclesiastical Superior of the Mission sui iuris of Tokelau. He was born in Sataua on the island of Savai'i. [2] He was ordained for the presbyterate of the Diocese of Samoa and Tokelau on 5 July 1977. [2]
Within the first years of mission work, the LMS missionaries developed a Samoan alphabet and put the language into written form. The setting-up of the first printing press in Samoa (1839), only the second in the Pacific region, was a mark of the missionary zeal to bring the people to understand the gospel through the written word.
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Samoa. There are currently 6 diplomatic missions in Apia (not including honorary consulates). Embassies/High Commissions in Apia