Msgr. Giovanni Battista Dieter, S.M., D.D., Vicar Apostolic of the Navigators' Archipelago, was born in Kleinhausen (Germany) on September 30, 1903. He professed the evangelical counsels on April 17, 1929 for the Society of Mary (Marists). He was subsequently ordained to the presbyterate for the Marists on June 29, 1933. He was consecrated to the episcopate as Titular Bishop of Ierafi and Vicar Apostolic of the Navigators' Archipelago on May 19, 1954. He died in Auckland, New Zealand on June 29, 1955.
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Galuega O Le Sinoti (Acts of the Snyod of the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia), December 7-14, 1990, promulgated, May 1, 1991, Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker. Apia, Samoa.
