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50 years ago — July 18, 1969
Bishop Establishes Two New Parishes on Oahu
Father Louis H. Yim, above, has been appointed the founding pastor of the new parish, Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ewa Beach. This is the 31st parish on Oahu. For Father Yim, this will be the second mission he has helped develop from mission status to full-fledged parish.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ewa Beach has been a mission of Immaculate Conception Church in Ewa. The development in Ewa Beach has been so fast over the past twelve years that the mission is actually larger than the parent parish. According to Father Yim, there are over a thousand Catholic families in the area that will be served by Our Lady of Perpetual Help. …
The fast-growing planned community, Mililani Town, received an additional recognition this week when Bishop John J. Scanlan announced the formation of a new parish, Oahu’s 32nd, for the community. It will be called St. John Apostle and Evangelist Church. Its first pastor will be Father Anthony Pascale.
25 years ago — July 1, 1994
Faith studies
460 people, a record number, attend Oahu’s Catechetical and Pastoral Institute
With loud clanging from her old-fashioned hand bell, Sister Kathleen Marie Shields sent students off to their classrooms at Damien Memorial High School for this summer’s Catechetical and Pastoral Institute of Oahu. …
Representing almost every parish on Oahu, the students chose from 35 courses offering a wide variety of topics … Traveling the longest distance was a group of five from American Samoa who came to Hawaii specifically to attend the institute.
10 years ago — June 26, 2009
Back to the future
Not much remains in the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa after construction work began Monday, June 15, on its renovation. … Bishop Larry Silva authorized the reconstruction which will change the interior of the church back to its original east-facing vertical orientation. Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario had redesigned the church when he had it declared a co-cathedral in 1985, shifting the insides of the narrow church 90 degrees, and putting the altar in the center. The present building was built in 1963, replacing a 1931 structure. The new construction is expected to last eight to 10 weeks. In the meantime, the parish hall has been reconfigured for Masses.