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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Solomon Islands
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Solomon Islands
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Solomon Islands
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• Northern Solomon Islands
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Parliamentary democracy and member of the British Commonwealth in the South Pacific. Consisters of a series of islands, the major of which are San Cristoval, Guadalcanal, Ysabel, Malaita, Florida, New Georgia, the Russell Group, Santa Cruz Group, Choiseul, and the Shortland Group. Original missionary work was entrusted to the Marist Fathers. About a fifth of the population is Catholic. Ecclesiastically the nation is governed by the archdiocese of

• Honiara

and the dioceses of

• Auki
• Gizo

See also

• Catholic-Hierarchy.Org
• World Fact Book