Cathedral Church of St Barnabas, Honiara a Cathedral Garth for the burial of those who served the diocese over a long period. The body of the ninth Bishop, Alfred Thomas Hill was the first to be interred here on 1 September 1969. The Cathedral also has a casket which contains the burial mat, baton and chalice of Bishop John Patteson, who was the first Bishop of Melanesia; he had been killed on Nukapu Island in the Reef Islands in 1871. Cathedral Church of St Barnabas, Honiara The St. Barnabas' Anglican Cathedral, Honiara is one of three Anglican cathedrals built in the Solomon Islands. The St. Luke's
Capital city prime economic, cultural, or intellectual centres of a nation or an empire are sometimes referred to as primate cities. Examples are Athens, Bangkok, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Cairo, London, Mexico City, Paris, Seoul and Tokyo. News media will often use the name of a capital city as an alternative name for the country of which it is the capital or of the government that is seated there, as a form of metonymy. For example, "relations between Washington and London" refer to "relations between the United States and the United Kingdom". The word "capital" derives from the Latin "caput" (genitive "capitis"),