Background
Mataeliga, Alapati Lui was born on January 4, 1953 in Sataua, Samoa.
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Mataeliga, Alapati Lui was born on January 4, 1953 in Sataua, Samoa.
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.
