St. Joseph's Cathedral, Avarua its present status in 1966 by The bull "Prophetarum voces" of Pope Paul VI. It is under the pastoral responsibility of Bishop Paul Donoghue. Inside, there are stained glass windows depicting scenes and people from the Bible. St. Joseph's Cathedral, Avarua The St. Joseph's Cathedral is the name that receives a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church that is located in the city of Avarua to the north of the island of Rarotonga the largest and most populated island of the Cook Islands a dependent territory of New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean. The temple follows the Roman or
Astove Island Astove Island Astove Atoll is a large atoll, part of the Aldabra Group, lying in the Outer Islands of Seychelles, with a distance of southwest of the capital, Victoria, on Mahé Island. The name Astove is said to be derived from the Portuguese "As Doze" Island, meaning the twelve islands, which may have been the original Portuguese name for Farquhar. Much of the region in which Astove lies was explored by Arab seamen and merchants between 1000 and 1500 AD, but there is no record of human settlement on the island before 1760. In that year, the Portuguese frigate "La