Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Honiara Tanagai, and a Martyrdom of St Peter Chanel for Our Lady of Lourdes and St Peter Chanel Church in Hull UK. The Archdiocesan Coat of Arms, designed by Slovak heraldic artist Marek Sobola and published in 2018, incorporates the national flag of the Solomon Islands (of which country Honiara is the capital), the Holy Cross of Christ (marking the patronage of the Holy Cross), and the fleur-de-lis (in honour of the Virgin Mary and Pope John Paul II, the Archdiocese's founder). Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Honiara The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Honiara is a Latin Rite Metropolitan Archdiocese in the
Honiara in the town, conducting surveys all across the islands and investigating leprosy. He departed and returned to Fiji in late March 1955. The town grew significantly after Honiara became the capital city, receiving two-thirds of the allocations granted for the country's economic development in the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in substantial infrastructure development. Population growth was very slow and only about 5% of Solomon Islanders were living in the city. However, the Bellonese population significantly increased; they established permanent and semi-permanent houses in the Honiara vicinity, typically along the banks of the White River. The town was affected by creolisation.