Take five

Bishop Silva’s first years in office include ordinations, a capital campaign, a strategic plan, a canonization

2005

Transitions The following changes occurred during Bishop Silva’s first five years DIOCESAN OFFICES OPENED Office for Affordable Housing Human Resources Office Land Asset Management Office Office for Youth and Young Adult Ministries Vocations Office Office for Parish Services (from Welcoming Parish Office) Office of Facilities Management PROPERTIES BOUGHT 23-acre plot in the Ewa district of Oahu, the future site of a new church and island-wide gathering place 1150 Fort Street Mall building next to the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, renamed the parish Kamiano Center New Catholic Charities Hawaii 2.2-acre campus in Makiki Vacant lot by former Catholic Charities Hawaii building on Vineyard St. RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES LEAVING Religious of the Virgin Mary Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES WELCOMED Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres Benedictine Sisters of the Eucharistic King Missionary Sisters of Mary, Help of Christians CHURCHES CLOSED St. Joseph Mission Church, Paauilo, Big Island St. Joseph Mission Church, Kaumakani, Kauai CHURCHES DEMOLISHED St. Michael Church, Kailua-Kona, following Big Island earthquake St. Sophia, Kaunakakai, Molokai, following a fire SCHOOLS CLOSED St. Joseph School, Makawao, Maui, shuts down its elementary grades to be reconfigured as a pre-school Holy Trinity School, Kuliouou OFFICES CLOSED Maui Office of Social Ministry VICARIATE CREATED Central Oahu (split off from Leeward Oahu) PARISHES RENAMED St. Damien Parish, Molokai (from St. Sophia) University Catholic Center (from Newman Center; change is later reversed) CLUSTERED PARISHES SPLIT Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Waikane, and St. Roch, Kahuku, in windward Oahu Holy Family and St. Philomena in Honolulu St. Rita, Haiku, and Holy Rosary, Paia, on Maui CATHOLIC HOSPITALS SOLD St. Francis Medical Centers, Liliha and West SERVICES CANCELED Sunday Mass at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, after 40 years

May

• Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, apostolic nuncio to the United States, on May 17, announces the appointment by Pope Benedict XVI of Father Clarence “Larry” Silva, 55, vicar general of the Diocese of Oakland, Calif., as the fifth Bishop of Honolulu

July

• Bishop Larry Silva is ordained and installed on July 21 in the Neal Blaisdell Center Arena as Bishop of Honolulu

August

• Reappoints Father Joseph A. Grimaldi and Father Thomas L. Gross as vicars general
• Begins four weeks of visits to neighbor island parishes

September

• Goes to Rome for a nine-day orientation for new bishops

October

• Is invested as a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem
• Walks in the 11th annual Men’s March Against Violence in downtown Honolulu

November

• Ordains Johnathan Hurrell a priest of the Sacred Hearts Congregation

December

• Appoints Father Marc Alexander as vicar general

2006

January

• Appoints his 17-member presbyteral council
• Opens Father Damien and Mother Marianne Commission
• Speaks at the March for Life at the state capitol
• Presides at a Mass in Kalaupapa honoring Blessed Marianne for her feast day
• Blesses Oahu’s Catholic home schooling families at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace

February

• Travels to San Francisco for the installation of Archbishop George Niederauer; to Reno for the ordination and installation of Bishop Randy Calvo; and to the annual San Francisco province bishops retreat

March

• Dedicates a “new” main altar at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace made from parts of the cathedral’s 19th century pulpit

April

• Dedicates the Diocese of Honolulu to the Divine Mercy devotion of St. Faustina Kowalska
• Revives the Welcoming Parish program begun in 1997 by Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo
• Appears in a 60-second public service announcement for Easter distributed to major Honolulu television stations

May

• Appoints Father Alexander as moderator of the curia to oversee the diocese’s central offices

June

Attends the 115th annual Holy Ghost feast in Honolulu

July

• Appoints Tom Papandrew to head the new diocesan strategic planning process
• Rededicates St. Joseph Church in Waipahu after a $3.5 million renovation

• September
• Incardinates Father Khanh Hoang into the diocese
• Accepts for diocesan study former Oratorian seminarians, Peter Miti, Cletus Mooya and Paul Dong-Min Li
• Meets for the first time with his new  14-member Diocesan Pastoral Council

October

• Introduces his strategic planning program for the Diocese of Honolulu
• Leads his first public eucharistic procession through downtown Honolulu

November

• Travels to Syracuse, N.Y., to visit the Franciscan Sisters’ motherhouse where Blessed Marianne’s remains rest
• Holds his first convocation on Catholic education for school administrators, pastors, and the diocesan board of education

December

• Travels to the Philippines to visit dioceses and orders that send priests and religious to Hawaii

2007

January

• Ordains 17 permanent deacons in six ceremonies on five islands
• Speaks at the annual Red Mass

June

• Ordains Paul Li, Peter Miti and Cletus Mooya as priests
• Leads a Corpus Christi procession from the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa to the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace

July

• Names Father Peter Dumag vocations director
• Names Father Khanh Hoang vicar for clergy

September

• Names Father Mark Gantley, of the Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., as judicial vicar

October

• Leads a public recitation of the rosary at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace for the 90th anniversary of the last appearance of Our Lady of Fatima

2008

January

• Suspends Island Treasures, the 11-year tradition honoring outstanding Hawaii’s lay parish volunteers
• Hosts an ecumenical evening prayer marking the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

• February
• Opens the “With Grateful Hearts” capital and endowment campaign office
• Introduces “Witness to Jesus: Diocesan Road Map for Pastoral, Program, and Facility Needs”

March

• Appoints Deacon John and Kathleen Coughlin as directors of the permanent deacon formation program

April

• Attends events surrounding Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to New York City and Washington, D.C.

May

• Writes “A Parish Pastoral Response to Job Loss” in the wake of the closings of Molokai Ranch and Aloha Airlines

June

• Celebrates his first Solemn Pontifical High Tridentine (Latin) Mass at Blessed Sacrament Church, Honolulu

July

• Receives news that Pope Benedict XVI signs a decree confirming the miraculous healing of Audrey Toguchi from cancer as the second miracle needed for Blessed Damien to be canonized
• Travels to Sydney, Australia, for World Youth Day

August

• Appoints four deacons from Micronesia to parishes in Hawaii

September

• Accepts the retirement of Patricia Tossey, administrative assistant to three bishops, and diocesan employee for 48 years

October

• Participates in an ecumenical prayer service and blessing of graves at Kalaupapa

2009

February

• Receives the announcement in Rome from Pope Benedict XVI that Father Damien will be canonized on Oct. 11

March

• Hires a new diocesan finance officer
• Consecrates Noemi Angeles as a Consecrated Virgin Living in the World
• Hires the diocese’s first human resources director
• Hires a diocesan director of real estate

June

• Ordains Marvin Bearis a Capuchin Franciscan priest
• Ordains Jon Cabico a priest for the Diocese of Honolulu

July

• Appoints Father Marvin Samiano the diocese’s judicial vicar and Father Steve Nguyen as a part-time tribunal judge

September

• Blesses Maryknoll School’s long-awaited community center

October

• Attends the Oct. 11 canonization by Pope Benedict XVI of Father Damien in Rome and related events in Belgium and Italy with 500 Hawaii pilgrims
• Appoints Joy Bulosan as his administrative assistant
• Hosts Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels and 12 California bishops on Molokai for a pilgrimage with a relic of St. Damien

November

• Appoints a diocesan director of youth and young adult ministry
• Installs St. Damien’s relic in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace following an outdoor public civic/interfaith ceremony Iolani Palace
• Celebrates Mass at Kalawao, Molokai, for the final official St. Damien canonization event
• Announces the diocese’s seventh deacon formation class with 22 candidates

December

• Begins a new program of official episcopal parish visitations
• Dedicates the renovated Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa
• Sings with the With Grateful Hearts priest and religious vocations concert at Farrington High School
• Closes the solicitation phase of the diocese’s With Grateful Hearts capital campaign which brings more than $57 million in pledges, exceeding its $30 million goal

2010

January

• Writes a position paper urging the building of the River Street Residences Project for homeless people

March

• Blesses the Catholic Charities Hawaii’s new 2.2-acre Clarence T.C. Ching Campus

May

• Presents a certificate to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints honoring the collaboration of its member Jonathan Napela with Father Damien in Kalaupapa
• Vatican upgrades the feast day of St. Damien, May 10, from an optional to an obligatory memorial

• Accepts the retirements of Sacred Hearts Sister Helene Wood, director of the Office of Worship; Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Roselani Enomoto, co-director of Parish Social Ministry and local director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development; and Louise Wong, associate superintendent of Catholic Schools