GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, Pacific Daily News August 20, 2016
Up to 10 people from Samoa and American Samoa studying to be future Catholic priests at a Yona seminary were withdrawn from the institution earlier this summer, according to local church officials.
Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, who currently oversees Guam’s Catholic Church, said these withdrawn seminarians all were from the Diocese of Samoa in Pago Pago, American Samoa, and the Archdiocese of Samoa in Apia, Samoa.
American Samoa is a U.S. territory, while Samoa is an independent state that was formerly called Western Samoa.
Hon said the Samoan seminarians were studying to be priests at their respective dioceses, not the Archdiocese of Agana in Guam.
“Archbishop Hon first started hearing at the start of July that the Samoan seminarians would be leaving Redemptoris Mater Seminary,” the Archdiocese of Agana said in response to questions from Pacific Daily News.
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