Apostolic Prefecture of the Falkland Islands
The Apostolic Prefecture of Falkland Islands (Latin: Apostolica Præfectura de Insulis Falkland) is a Latin Church missionary ecclesiastical jurisdiction or apostolic prefecture of the Catholic Church covering the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, UK Southern Atlantic Ocean overseas possessions.
Prefecture Apostolic of Falkland Islands Apostolica Praefectura de Insulis Falkland | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Falkland Islands |
| Territory | Falkland Islands |
| Ecclesiastical province | Immediately exempt to the Holy See |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 12,173 km2 (4,700 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 3,000 300 (10.0%) |
| Parishes | 1 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 10 January 1952 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Apostolic Administrator | Hugh Allan, O.Praem. |
| Vicar General | Fr. John Wisdom, O.Praem. |
| Website | |
| prefecturemission.org | |
It is immediately exempt to the Holy See and not part of an ecclesiastical province. Its only church in the Falklands is its cathedra, St Mary's, in the Falklands capital Stanley. (Christ Church Cathedral is not a Catholic church but is the southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world, consecrated in 1892.)
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