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Catholic Church in Guam
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{{Short description|Catholic Church In US}}The Catholic Church in the United States unincorporated territory of Guam is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome and locally administered by the Archdiocese of Agaña.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Catholicism on the island was a product of centuries of Spanish colonial control as the island was part of the Spanish East Indies until 1898, when the United States acquired it after the SpanishâAmerican War.On October 14, 1965, the vicariate apostolic was raised to a diocese. The first supreme pontiff to visit the island was Pope John Paul II in 1981.WEB, January 1, 2008, The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agana History, Archdiocese of Agana,weblink 2008-12-05, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080510134551weblink">weblink May 10, 2008, Guam has been sending delegations of young people to World Youth Day since 1993.WEB, John Paul II, Pope, APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II TO JAMAICA, MEXICO AND DENVER (COLORADO) ON THE OCCASION OF THE EIGHTH WORLD YOUTH DAY (AUGUST 8-16, 1993),weblink Speech, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, May 26, 2012, dead,weblink July 17, 2012,Our Lady of Camarin
The patroness of Guam and the Marianas Islands is Our Lady of Camarin (Chamorro: Santa Marian Kamalen), a miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin Mary found by a fisherman in the waters off the island's southwest coast between the 17th and 18th centuries.WEB, September 20, 2006, Kamalen Statue Placed In Washington, D.C., Pacific Magazine,weblink 2008-12-05, {{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The image's feast day is on 8 December—the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and a declared public holiday on the island—and is celebrated with a Mass and procession around HagÃ¥tña.References
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