Remains of St. Marianne return to Hawaii from Syracuse and is permanently enshrined at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
2005
- Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, apostolic nuncio to the United States, on May 17, announces the appointment by Pope Benedict XVI of Father Clarence “Larry” Silva, vicar general of the Diocese of Oakland, California, as the fifth Bishop of Honolulu
- Bishop Larry Silva is ordained and installed July 21 in the Neal Blaisdell Center Arena as Bishop of Honolulu
- Is invested as a knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
- Ordains Johnathan Hurrell a priest of the Sacred Hearts Congregation
2006
- Opens Father Damien and Mother Marianne Commission
- Speaks at the March for Life at the state capitol
- Dedicates a “new” main altar at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace made from parts of the cathedral’s 19th century pulpit
- Dedicates the Diocese of Honolulu to the Divine Mercy devotion of St. Faustina Kowalska
- Revives the Welcoming Parish program begun in 1997 by Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo
- Rededicates St. Joseph Church in Waipahu after a $3.5 million renovation
- Accepts for diocesan study former Oratorian seminarians Peter Miti, Cletus Mooya and Paul Dong-Min Li
- Introduces his strategic planning program for the Diocese of Honolulu
- Leads his first public Eucharistic procession through downtown Honolulu
2007
- Ordains 17 permanent deacons in six ceremonies on five islands
- Speaks at the annual Red Mass
- Ordains Paul Li, Peter Miti and Cletus Mooya as priests
2008
- Suspends Island Treasures, the 11-year tradition honoring Hawaii’s outstanding lay parish volunteers
- Opens the “With Grateful Hearts” capital and endowment campaign office
- Introduces “Witness to Jesus: Diocesan Road Map for Pastoral, Program, and Facility Needs”
- Appoints Deacon John and Kathleen Coughlin as directors of the permanent deacon formation program
- Attends events surrounding Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to New York City and Washington, D.C.
- Writes “A Parish Pastoral Response to Job Loss” in the wake of the closings of Molokai Ranch and Aloha Airlines
- Celebrates his first Solemn Pontifical High Tridentine (Latin) Mass at Blessed Sacrament Church, Honolulu
- Receives news that Pope Benedict XVI signs a decree confirming the miraculous healing of Audrey Toguchi from cancer as the second miracle needed for Blessed Damien to be canonized
- Travels to Sydney, Australia, for World Youth Day
2009
- Receives the announcement in Rome from Pope Benedict XVI that Father Damien will be canonized Oct. 11
- Hires a new diocesan finance officer
- Consecrates Noemi Angeles as a Consecrated Virgin Living in the World
- Hires a diocesan human resources director
- Hires a diocesan director of real estate
- Ordains Marvin Bearis a Capuchin Franciscan priest
- Ordains Jon Cabico a priest for the Diocese of Honolulu
- Blesses Maryknoll School’s long-awaited community center
- Attends the Oct. 11 canonization by Pope Benedict XVI of Father Damien in Rome and related events in Belgium and Italy with 500 Hawaii pilgrims
- Hosts Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels and 12 California bishops on Molokai for a pilgrimage with a relic of St. Damien
- Appoints a diocesan director of youth and young adult ministry
- Installs St. Damien’s relic in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace following a civic, interfaith ceremony at Iolani Palace
- Begins a new program of official episcopal parish visitations
- Dedicates the renovated Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa
- Sings with the With Grateful Hearts priest and religious vocations concert
- Closes the solicitation phase of the diocese’s With Grateful Hearts capital campaign which brings more than $57 million in pledges, exceeding its $30 million goal
2010
- Blesses Catholic Charities Hawaii’s new 2.2-acre Clarence T.C. Ching campus in Makiki
- Presents a certificate to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints honoring the collaboration of its member Jonathan Napela with Father Damien in Kalaupapa
- Vatican upgrades the feast day of St. Damien from an optional to an obligatory memorial
- Establishes HOPE Services Hawaii, a diocesan nonprofit agency to help homeless on the Big Island
- Creates two new diocesan positions — resource developer/community organizer and housing development director — for expanded social ministry to the homeless
- Approves establishment of the Filipino Priests Association of Hawaii
- Approves energy conservation projects for all Hawaii Catholic Church properties
- Makes available a “traveling relic” of St. Damien
- Appoints a chaplain for Maui’s Latin Mass community and incorporates Oahu’s Latin Mass community into Blessed Sacrament Parish in Pauoa
- Appoints separate pastors for Blessed Sacrament Parish in Pauoa and St. Stephen Parish in Nuuanu after the two parishes had been sharing clergy for a decade
2011
- Vicar general Father Marc Alexander leaves priestly ministry for a position with Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s administration
- Appoints Father Jack Ryan as pastor of the Newman Center after Jesuits announce their departure from the University of Hawaii parish
- Names Deacon Clarence DeCaires as the diocese’s first director of permanent deacons
- Vatican medical board approves the unexpected recovery of a New York woman from pancreatitis as the second miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Marianne Cope
- Is invested in California as a knight in the Order of Malta
- Assigns Malia Puka O Kalani Church in Keaukaha its own administrator after 11 years of the parish sharing clergy with St. Joseph Church in Hilo
- Travels with more than 100 Hawaii pilgrims to World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain
- Oversees implementation of new Roman Missal translation in the diocese
- U.S. bishops approve adding an optional memorial for Blessed Marianne in the proper of saints calendar for the United States
- Vatican theologians approve second miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Marianne
- Pope Benedict XVI signs decree to go forward with Blessed Marianne’s canonization
- Blesses the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Hale, a new transitional and affordable housing complex on the Catholic Charities Hawaii campus
- Blesses and dedicates the newly built St. Damien Church in Kaunakakai, Molokai
- Ordains Anthony Rapozo of Kauai a priest for the Diocese of Honolulu
2012
- Transfers Molokai’s two parishes from the jurisdiction of the Maui vicariate to the Central Oahu vicariate
- Hires a full-time diocesan young adult ministry coordinator
- Begins “Bagels with Bishop” program with local Catholic high school seniors
- Blesses the “Dever House,” formerly the Jesuit House at the Newman Center
- Travels to Rome for “ad limina” visit with Pope Benedict XVI
- Restructures Office of Affordable Housing, eliminating the position of diocesan housing development director
- Hires a new director for the Office of Development and Stewardship
- Participates with priests, seminarians and youth/young adult ministers in the Diocesan Ministers Basketball Challenge
- Celebrates Mass for the 150th anniversary of St. Joseph Church in remote Kaupo, Maui
- Officiates at the profession of Sister Bernadette Marie Meno as a diocesan hermit
- Celebrates Mass for more than 800 young Catholics during Diocesan Youth Day at Wet ‘n’ Wild Hawaii water park
- Celebrates opening Mass for the Year of Faith at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa
- Breaks ground for the new St. Michael the Archangel Church in Kailua-Kona
- Attends the Oct. 21 canonization by Pope Benedict XVI of Mother Marianne in Rome and related events in upstate New York and Italy with 200 Hawaii pilgrims
- Hosts visiting bishops from California for events on Molokai to culminate a diocese-wide tour of the traveling relic of St. Marianne
- Enshrines St. Marianne’s relic at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace after a procession and civic, interfaith ceremony at Iolani Palace
- Joins Legacy of Life Hawaii poster campaign for promoting organ donations
- Launches new diocesan website at www.catholichawaii.org
2013
- Celebrates Mass with apostolic nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, Bishop Robert Cunningham of Syracuse and others during an invitation-only gathering in Kalaupapa commemorating St. Marianne’s canonization
- Participates in the diocese’s first “Stewardship Day”
- Writes “A Pastoral Letter to Surfers in the Year of Faith”
- Celebrates Mass for Pope Benedict XVI after the announcement of his resignation
- Establishes the Benedictine Monastery of Hawaii as a “public organization of the Christian faithful” after a decision by the Italy-based Olivetan Benedictine Congregation to possibly close the Waialua community
- Celebrates election of Pope Francis
- Accepts Stephen Macedo of the Big Island back into the priesthood after his 10-year absence from ordained ministry
- Is made an honorary knight of the Royal Order of Kamehameha I
- Helps launch campaign to raise $15 million for renovations to Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace
- Travels with two dozen Hawaii pilgrims to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for World Youth Day
- Speaks at a state capitol rally where thousands of faithful voice their opposition of a bill aimed at legalizing same-sex marriage in Hawaii
- Incardinates Benedictine Fathers David Barfknecht and Michael Sawyer into the Diocese of Honolulu as part of their new status as a “public organization of the faithful” in the diocese
- Brings back “Bishop’s Circle” fundraising campaign
- Celebrates closing Mass for the Year of Faith at Star of the Sea Church
2014
- “Flips the switch” for full-time broadcasting in Hawaii of Immaculate Heart Radio
- Accepts candidacy of 14 men for the diocese’s eighth deacon formation class
- Leads Taize prayer at the Newman Center for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
- Sends his response for a preparatory document for the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on “The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization”
- Hires a new diocesan director of pastoral planning, combining the duties of the former Office of Parish Resources and implementation of the “Road Map” strategic plan
- Centralizes payroll system for parishes, schools and diocesan offices
- Celebrates the 150th anniversary of St. Damien’s priestly ordination by ordaining Sacred Hearts brother Ajit Baliar Singh of India a priest at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace
- Raises parish assessments by 30 percent, the first increase in a decade
- Expresses disappointment as a bill is passed extending the statute of limitations during which Hawaii child sex abuse victims can file lawsuits
- Vatican names Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace a minor basilica
- Remains of St. Marianne return to Hawaii from Syracuse and is permanently enshrined at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
- Sends letter of support to parishioners in Pahoa as the community faces threat of lava flow
- Hires a new full-time diocesan Safe Environment director
- Hosts bishops, cardinals and more than 700 members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem visiting Hawaii for the annual meeting of the order’s Western and Northwestern Lieutenancies
- Approves establishment in Hawaii of India-based Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians
- Celebrates Mass for more than 350 young faithful at Sea Life Park for Diocesan Youth Day
- Kicks off the Year of Consecrated Life with Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
2015
- Ordains Edwin Conselva of Waipahu a priest for the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette, the first Hawaii man ordained for the order
- Ordains 13 permanent deacons in four ceremonies on three islands
- Blesses and dedicates the new St. Michael Church in Kailua-Kona
- Breaks ground for Meheula Vista, a future affordable housing complex for seniors in Mililani Mauka run by the Catholic Charities Housing Development Corporation
- Begins “Restoring Proper Order” initiative for the Sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist)
- Ordains Nicholas Brown a priest for the Diocese of Honolulu
