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Stephen Alencastre

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Alencastre's personal mission included continuing to expand the number of schools and parish churches in the Islands (and to renovate the existing ones) and to build a seminary to form vowed religious locally to the priesthood. This came to fruition with the building of St. Stephen's Seminary, named
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a few months following his death. The history of the Catholic Sacred Hearts mission in the Hawaiian Islands was documented by one of the congregation's priests and later compiled and published in a book called
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Upon the death of Boeynaems on May 13, 1926, Alencastre automatically succeeded him as Vicar Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands. He was the first bishop in Hawai‘i to have been raised in the
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After continuing and completing much of the work begun by Alencastre and his Sacred Hearts predecessors, the mission area of the Hawaiian Islands was elevated to the status of the
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in Honolulu depicts his episcopal coat-of-arms, as well as a portrayal of a blessing being bestowed upon him by Pope Pius XI. His episcopal motto was "
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Vicar Apostolic, with the right of succession, on April 29, 1924. On August 24 of that year, he was consecrated
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as an infant, Alencastre later returned to Europe to finish his seminary studies in
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sticks)—traditional symbols of the Hawaiian people, and the colours of the
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Following his death, he was posthumously awarded the honor of "Officer of the
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Headstone at the grave of Alencastre. The grave of Ropert is directly behind.
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Bishop Alencastre was the first to include in his episcopal arms the
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20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States
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to help spread of Catholicism in the Hawaiian Islands.
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Index

Vicar Apostolic of Hawaiian Islands

Roman Catholic
Libert H. Boeynaems
James Joseph Sweeney
John Joseph Cantwell
Porto Santo
Madeira Islands
Portugal
Los Angeles
California
Portuguese
Stephen Peter Alencastre's coat of arms
SSCC
Roman Catholic Church
Vicar Apostolic
Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands
Diocese of Honolulu
titular
Arabissus
Porto Santo
Madeira Islands
Portugal
Hawai‘i
Belgium
Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Saint Joseph
Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace
Libert H. Boeynaems

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