Catholic dating in Hawaii
Catholic dating in Hawaii: St Damien and St Marianne's relics in Honolulu, Ilocano and Visayan Masses, the Latin Mass in Pauoa, and parishes on five islands.
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Two canonized saints served the same place in Hawaii. The National Park Service writes that "Saint Damien is one of two Catholic saints at Kalaupapa who came to serve the Hansen's disease patients"; the other is Saint Marianne Cope, who came to the islands in 1883 and took up Damien's work on Molokai after his death in 1889.
Damien was ordained a priest in Honolulu's Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace on 21 May 1864, and the relics of both saints are kept there. While the cathedral is being renovated, the cathedral's own pages say, both reliquaries are at the Co-Cathedral of St Theresa on North School Street, where Mass is celebrated every day.
Kalaupapa itself can be entered only with a permit and a guide. The two saints can be visited at an ordinary parish Mass in Honolulu.
Nineteen places are listed below, each with an address and a link to its own page or its diocese's: the co-cathedral and the cathedral's temporary home, the Latin Mass in Pauoa, the University of Hawaiʻi's Newman Center and Chaminade, Korean, Vietnamese, Ilocano and Visayan Masses, the church in Kaunakakai named for Damien, and parishes on Maui, the Big Island and Kauaʻi. It is not every parish in the islands, only the ones whose pages we could read.
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Catholics in Hawaii
All the islands form one diocese, the Diocese of Honolulu, whose first missionaries arrived on 7 July 1827. The diocese's parish listing was open to us, alongside most parishes' own sites.
The islands pray in many languages. The co-cathedral has a Vietnamese Mass on Sunday afternoons; St Andrew Kim Taegon Oratory is the Korean Catholic community; Our Lady of the Mount in Kalihi has an Ilocano Mass once a month; Christ the King in Kahului has a Spanish Mass on Sundays and a Visayan Mass once a month; and St Michael in Kona celebrates its early Sunday Mass in English and Hawaiian.
From the National Park Service's, the cathedral's and the parishes' own pages, opened 24 September 2026
The traditional Latin Mass is celebrated every Sunday at Blessed Sacrament in Pauoa, according to the 1962 Missal. At the cathedral, the young adult group welcomes men and women from about eighteen to their mid thirties, "Catholic or not".
Where the community gathers
The nineteen places are spread over five islands: Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Maui, the island of Hawaiʻi, and Kauaʻi.
Oʻahu
Oʻahu holds eight: the Co-Cathedral of St Theresa, the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Blessed Sacrament, the Newman Center, Chaminade University's Mystical Rose Oratory, St Andrew Kim Taegon Oratory, Our Lady of the Mount and St Augustine by-the-Sea.
Molokaʻi
Molokaʻi holds one: St Damien of Molokai Church in Kaunakakai.
Maui
Maui holds four: St Anthony in Wailuku, Christ the King in Kahului, Maria Lanakila in Lahaina and St Theresa in Kihei.
The island of Hawaiʻi
The island of Hawaiʻi holds three: St Benedict's Painted Church, St Michael in Kona and St Joseph in Hilo.
Kauaʻi
Kauaʻi holds three: St Raphael in Koloa, Immaculate Conception in Lihue and St Catherine in Kapaʻa.
Meeting places worth knowing
The church where the reliquaries of St Damien and St Marianne Cope rest during the cathedral's renovation, with four Sunday Masses and a Vietnamese Mass on Sunday at half past three.
712 North School StreetHonolulu
HI 96817
The cathedral of the Diocese of Honolulu, dedicated in 1843, whose Masses are held in the Kamiano Center next door while the building is renovated, and whose young adult group is open to ages eighteen to the mid thirties.
1159 Fort Street MallHonolulu
HI 96813
A church built by the Sacred Hearts Fathers in 1938, where the traditional Latin Mass of the 1962 Missal is celebrated every Sunday at ten.
2124 Pauoa RoadHonolulu
HI 96813
The Catholic parish at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, with a student-led Mass on Sunday at five followed by dinner in the school year, and Newman Nights on Wednesdays.
1941 East West RoadHonolulu
HI 96822
The Marianist chapel of Chaminade University, with a student Mass on Sunday at six in the evening when classes are in session.
3140 Waialae AvenueHonolulu
HI 96816
The Korean Catholic community of Honolulu, with a Saturday afternoon Mass and two on Sunday morning.
511 Main StreetHonolulu
HI 96818
A Kalihi parish with an Ilocano Mass on the third Sunday of the month at six in the evening.
1614 Monte StreetHonolulu
HI 96819
The Waikīkī parish, with five weekend Masses, from a Saturday vigil to Sunday evening.
130 Ohua AvenueHonolulu
HI 96815
The parish church of Molokaʻi, dedicated in 2011, one of whose missions, it says, is to welcome visitors who come to learn Damien's story, with Sunday Mass at nine.
115 Ala Malama StreetKaunakakai
HI 96748
A Wailuku parish with three Sunday Masses and a Divine Mercy devotion on Sunday afternoons.
1627 Mill StreetWailuku
HI 96793
A parish with a Spanish Mass on Sunday at noon and a Visayan Mass on the first Sunday of the month.
20 West Wakea AvenueKahului
HI 96732
The Lahaina parish, with Spanish Masses on Tuesday and Sunday evenings as well as English Masses.
712 Waineʻe StreetLahaina
HI 96761
A Kihei parish with Spanish Masses on Saturday and Friday evenings and three Sunday Masses.
25 West Lipoa StreetKihei
HI 96753
A church built in 1899 by Father John Velghe, a Belgian of Damien's own congregation, who painted its walls himself to teach with pictures, with Sunday Mass at eight.
84-5140 Painted Church RoadCaptain Cook
HI 96704
A Kona parish established in 1840, with an early Sunday Mass in English and Hawaiian and a Spanish Mass at noon.
75-5769 Aliʻi DriveKailua-Kona
HI 96740
A Hilo parish with Sunday Masses at seven and nine and the Liturgy of the Hours prayed each afternoon.
43 Kapiolani StreetHilo
HI 96720
A parish that dates itself to 1841, with Sunday Masses in the new church and weekday Mass in the historic one.
3011 Hapa RoadKoloa
HI 96756
A Lihue parish with Sunday Masses at seven, half past nine and half past four, and a Filipino Catholic Club that meets on the first Sunday of the month.
4453 Kapaia RoadLihue
HI 96766
The parish of Kauaʻi's east and north shores, with three Sunday Masses in Kapaʻa and Masses in Kilauea and Hanalei.
5021-A Kawaihau RoadKapaʻa
HI 96746
Some places appear without a card. Our Lady of Seven Sorrows at Kaluaʻaha, one of the two churches Damien helped build on Molokaʻi that still stand, has Sunday Mass at seven in the morning, but no street address. Kalaupapa, where both saints served, is part of a national historical park, entered only with a permit, by those sixteen and over, on a guided tour. The diocese also lists Masses in Filipino languages, Samoan and Hawaiian at other parishes whose own pages did not confirm them.
Distances that decide everything
A diagram, not a map. Driving time on the island of Hawaiʻi, as in the text.
In Honolulu, the co-cathedral, the cathedral's Kamiano Center, Blessed Sacrament and Our Lady of the Mount are within five minutes of each other, and Waikīkī, Mānoa and Chaminade within a quarter of an hour.
On the other islands, the parishes of central Maui are within about three quarters of an hour of each other; on Molokaʻi, Kaunakakai to Seven Sorrows is about half an hour; on the island of Hawaiʻi, Kona to Hilo is about two hours by road.
Between islands, there is only the plane. So Catholic Hawaii is a set of island communities; on one island two people can meet any evening, and between islands, meeting takes a flight.
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The Catholic year in Hawaii
A Vietnamese Mass beside the relics
At the co-cathedral, where St Damien and St Marianne now rest.
An Ilocano Mass in Kalihi
Our Lady of the Mount, at six in the evening.
Student Mass at Mānoa
The Newman Center, followed by dinner.
The Latin Mass in Pauoa
Blessed Sacrament, according to the 1962 Missal.
A Visayan Mass on Maui
Christ the King in Kahului, in the evening.
Rooster Mass on Molokaʻi
St Damien's, at five in the morning, from 16 December to the feast itself.
Dating as a practising Catholic in Hawaii
An Ilocano Mass in Kalihi, a Korean Mass in Āliamanu, a Latin Mass in Pauoa and a Mass in English and Hawaiian in Kona: the islands' Catholics do not all pray the same way, and cana.love lets you say how you do.
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Parish and meaning, in your own words
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Spanish is one of five languages
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Meeting safely
- For a first meeting choose a public place in daylight and agree a time to part: coffee after Mass, a café in Kakaʻako or Kaimukī in Honolulu. Tell someone you trust where you will be and when you expect to be home, and hold back your address for now.
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Common questions
Where can I pray at the relics of St Damien and St Marianne?
At the Co-Cathedral of St Theresa in Honolulu, where both reliquaries rest while the cathedral is renovated.
Can I visit Kalaupapa?
Only with a permit, from sixteen, on a guided tour; the National Park Service sets the rules.
Where is the traditional Latin Mass?
Blessed Sacrament in Pauoa, every Sunday at ten.
Which young adult group names an age?
The cathedral's group in Honolulu, from about eighteen to the mid thirties.
Which other languages are used at Mass?
Vietnamese, Korean and Ilocano in Honolulu, Spanish and Visayan on Maui, and English with Hawaiian in Kona.
Can I use cana.love from any island?
Yes: anyone eighteen or older can use it in a web browser, with no app to download.
Next steps
In Honolulu, go to Mass at the co-cathedral and to the cathedral's young adults; at Mānoa, to the Sunday student Mass. And if you want to know how someone lives their faith before a first coffee, make a free cana.love profile and read theirs.
Reviewed on September 24, 2026.