Tags: Christian Bishop.
Alapati Lui Mataeliga was born in Sataua Samoa on January 4 1953. He was ordained for the presbyterate of the Diocese of Samoa and Tokelau on July 5 1977. Upon the retirement of Cardinal Pio Taofinu’u Father Mataeliga was appointed by the Holy See as the second Archbishop of Samoa-Apia on November 16 2002. He was consecrated to the episcopate and installed as ordinary by Archbishop Patrick Coveney Apostolic Nuncio to Samoa on January 3 2003.