page_title: Stephen Alencastre
section_title: Episcopacy
hierarchical_section_title: Stephen Alencastre / Episcopacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Pic taken and uploaded by User: Aloysius Patacsil A window in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu depicts the episcopal crest of Msgr. Stephen Alencaste, Titular bishop of Arabissus and Vicar Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands. His episcopal motto was Opportet illum regnare. Msgr. Alencastre was the first to make use of the pulo`ulo`u (kapu sticks) and the colors of the Hawaiian flag in his episcopal crest.
context_page_description: Bishop Stephen Peter Alencastre, SS.CC., was a Roman Catholic bishop who served as the fifth and last Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands. He was also an apparent titular bishop of Arabissus.
context_section_description: When the Vicar Apostolic, Libert H. Boeynaems, SS.CC., fell ill, Alencastre was appointed by Pope Pius XI as coadjutor Vicar Apostolic, with the right of succession, on April 29, 1924. On August 24 of that year, he was consecrated Titular Bishop of Arabissus at the age of 47.
  Upon the death of Boeynaems on May 13, 1926, Alencastre automatically succeeded him as Vicar Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands. He was the first bishop in Hawai‘i to have been raised in the Hawaiian Islands.
  Alencastre's personal mission included continuing to expand the number of schools and parish churches in the Islands (and to renovate the existing ones) and to build a seminary to form vowed religious locally to the priesthood. This came to fruition with the building of St. Stephen's Seminary, named in honor of the Bishop's own patron saint, which is still operational. The bishop was also partly responsible for the increase in the variety of religious orders in Hawai‘i, inviting such groups as the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet to help spread of Catholicism in the Hawaiian Islands.
caption: Alencastre's episcopal arms.
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