Paul Mea


Paul Eusebius Mea Kaiuea has been the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru since 1978. Kaiuea was born in Kiribati and was ordained a priest in 1969. In 1978 he succeeded French-born Pierre-Auguste-Antoine-Marie Guichet as the bishop of the diocese when it encompassed all of Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu. In 1982, Tuvalu was removed from the jurisdiction of the diocese.