(Diocese of Chalan Kanoa) — Catholicism in the Northern Mariana Islands can be considered as one of the oldest in this part of the world. Because the NMI was a
Catholicism in the Northern Mariana Islands can be considered one of the oldest in the world. As a strategic place of rest for Spanish voyagers from the Latin Americas to Southeast Asia and other Pacific Island nations and back, one may even argue that it may even be as old as 500 years old, if not older