Happy 75th birthday to the Diocese of Honolulu! It is quite the celebratory occasion, quiz friends. How well do you know our beloved diocese? Let’s see you take on this quiz, sprinkled with questions honoring the Islands.
1) Saints
True or false: St. Teresa of Kolkata was present at the beatification of St. Marianne of Molokai.
- a) True
- b) False
2) Scripture
The first reading selected for the diocese’s 75th anniversary Mass on Sept. 10 includes the verse: “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who lived in a land of gloom a light has shone.” From which Old Testament book is this passage taken?
- a) Nehemiah
- b) Micah
- c) Jeremiah
- d) Isaiah
3) Church
Which Island parish has the most recently completed church structure built from the ground up?
- a) St. Michael Church, Kona
- b) St. Damien Church, Kaunakakai
- c) St. Joseph Church, Waipahu
- d) St. Jude Church, Kapolei
4) Religious orders
Sisters from which religious order staffed St. Catherine School in Kapaa, Kauai, when the school’s first classes began in 1947?
- a) Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- b) Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary
- c) Maryknoll Sisters
- d) Franciscan Sisters of Charity
5) Geography
The Diocese of Honolulu is a “suffragan” diocese of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Which of the following is also suffragan to the San Francisco archdiocese?
- a) Diocese of Oakland, California
- b) Diocese of Salt Lake City, Utah
- c) Diocese of Reno, Nevada
- d) All of the above
6) Clergy
Msgr. James J. Sweeney was selected in 1941 to be the first diocesan bishop for the Islands. Who succeeded him as bishop of the Diocese of Honolulu after his death in 1968?
- a) Bishop Louis Maigret
- b) Bishop Stephen P. Alencastre
- c) Bishop John J. Scanlan
- d) Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario
7) Popes
Who was pope when Hawaii became a U.S. state in 1959?
- a) Pope Pius XII
- b) St. John XXIII
- c) Blessed Paul VI
- d) Pope John Paul I
Answers: 1) b, 2) d, 3) a, 4) a, 5) d, 6) c, 7) b