Vatican – Samoan Salesian Fr Mosese Vitolio Tui appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Samoa-Apia

12 June 2024

(ANS - Vatican City) - On Wednesday 12 June, the Holy See's Press Office announced that the Holy Father Pope Francis has appointed Fr Mosese Vitolio Tui, a Salesian of Don Bosco, as the Metropolitan Archbishop of Samoa-Apia, Samoa. He currently serves as the Parish Priest of St. Paul's Church in Massey, in the Diocese of Auckland, New Zealand besides being the Councillor of the Australia-Pacific (AUL) Province of Mary Help of Christians, and serving as the Superior of the Provincial Delegation of the Pacific within the AUL Province.

Mosese Vitolio Tui was born on 9 November 1961 in Apia, Samoa. He attended the Salesian novitiate in Lysterfield, Australia, entering in 1986, and made his first religious profession in 1987. Perpetually professed on 8 December 1992, he was ordained a priest on 3 December 1994 in Alafua, Samoa, becoming the first Salesian Samoan.

Throughout his service in various communities of the Salesians of Don Bosco in the Province of AUL, he has held several significant positions:

- Administrator and Teacher in Alafua, near Samoa (1995)

- Local Councillor in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia (1996)

- Local Councillor, Principal, and Community Vicar in Alafua (1997-2006)

- Rector and Novice Master in Suva, Fiji (2006-2009)

- Rector, School Principal, Parish Priest, and Community Administrator in Salelologa, Samoa (2009-2017)

- Rector and Parish Priest of St. Paul in Massey, Diocese of Auckland, New Zealand (2018-2022)

- Warden in Salelologa (2022-2023)

- From 2023, as mentioned, Parish Priest of St. Paul Parish in Massey, New Zealand. For the AUL Province he served as the Provincial Councillor (2009-2015 and from 2022 to date) and as the Superior for the Pacific Delegation (from 2022 to date).

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