Chapters: Fijian Methodist Clergy, Fijian Roman Catholic Priests, Petero Mataca, Akuila Yabaki, Ram Narayan Deoki, Sakiusa Sing. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Petero Mataca (born at Cawaci, on Ovalau Island, 28 April 1933) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Suva, Fiji. After his education at St. John's College, Cawaci, he was ordained as a priest on 20 December 1959. He became a Bishop on 3 December 1974 when he was appointed Titular Bishop of Siminina and Auxiliary Bishop of Suva; following his appointment as a Bishop, he was officially ordained to that position the same year. On 10 April 1976, he was appointed Archbishop of Suva. Mataca has been a critic of some government policies, including its proposal to establish a Reconciliation and Unity Commission with the power, subject to presidential approval, to compensate victims and pardon perpetrators of the 2000 Fijian coup d'etat that deposed the elected government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry in 2000. On 22 June 2005, Mataca accused Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase of having misled church leaders about the provisions of the legislation to establish the Commission. Mataca and the leaders of a number of other denominations, he said, had been summoned to the Prime Minister's office on 2 May where they had been told about the bill's reconciliation and compensation provisions, which they had heartily endorsed. Only later, through the media, did they learn about its amnesty provisions. Mataca said he did not support the concept of amnesty for persons convicted of political crimes. The overthrow of a democratically elected government a serious crime, he said, and "the coup cycle" would continue unless those involved faced the consequences of their crimes. "I publicly appeal to our Presiden...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=210426