Honolulu County HI Archives Biographies.....Alencastre, Stephen (Right Rev.) November 3, 1876 - 
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Source: Men of Hawaii Vol. IV
Author: George F. Nellist (editor)

Alencastre, Right Rev. Stephen: C. SS., CC., DD.: Clergyman, Bishop of
Arabissus, Vicar-Apostolic for Hawaii.

     Born Nov. 3, 1876, Madeira, son of Lucius J. and Leopoldina (Bayao)
Alencastre.

     For almost 30 years, or since, his ordination in Honolulu on April 5, 1902,
the Right Rev. Stephen C. Alencastre, Bishop of Arabissus and Vicar-Apostolic
for Hawaii, has administered to the spiritual needs of the people of the
community, having succeeded on May 14, 1926, to his present position at, the
head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Islands upon the death of the Right.
Rev. Libert H. J. L. Boeynaems, Bishop of Zeugma, who had been for a quarter of
a century the Vicar-Apostolic for Hawaii.

     Throughout his long career in the church Bishop Alencastre has been
intensely interested in educational work in the Islands, in 1930 he was
responsible for the inauguration of the Catholic Preparatory Ecclesiastical
Seminary in Kalihi Valley to provide facilities in Hawaii for the continuation
of ecclesiastical studies by students who have graduated from preparatory schools.

     Bishop Alencastre came with his parents to Hawaii from Madeira in 1882 when
he was only six years old. A member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of
Jesus and Mary, he early decided to devote his life to service of the Catholic
Church, and after his ecclesiastical studies were completed abroad he returned
to Hawaii for his ordination.

     After more than a score of years of service, twelve as rector of the Church
or the Sacred Heart, Puuahou, during which the present building was erected
under his supervision. Bishop Alencastre was consecrated on August 24, 1924, in
recognition of his services to the church, receiving the title of the See of
Arabissus. This See, in ancient Armenia, was a suffragan of Melitene, and a
partial list of its bishops, from 381 to 692 A. D., still is known, its
territories had been overrun at one time by the followers of Mohammed, the
Christian population having been exterminated or reduced to slavery.

     Bishop Alencastre, since his ordination, has been particularly interested
and active in Catholic, missionary work in the Islands as his order is in charge
of that endeavor. He received his early classical education with the Brothers of
Mary in St. Louis College, Honolulu, went to Belgium in 1895 and studied
theology and philosophy at the famous University of Louvain, returning to Hawaii
at the completion of these courses.



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