Bishop Stephen Peter Alencastre, SSCC was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church 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.
Bishop Alencastre, c. 1910.
Pope Pius XI invokes the blessing of Saint Joseph, on Alencastre, in a window in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, Honolulu.
Alencastre's episcopal arms.
Headstone at the grave of Alencastre. The grave of Ropert is directly behind.
Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese for the state of Hawaii in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
First Roman Catholic Chapel in Honolulu, pictured in the late 19th century.
Pierre Coudrin founded the Picpus Order, which sent the first missionaries to Hawaii.
The coat of arms of Bishop Rouchouze on a stained glass window in the cathedral