Chanel College is a Catholic co-educational college in Moamoa, Samoa. It is near the top of Mount Vaea, at the end of Moamoa Road, which leads directly from Apia. The college has been staffed by a combination of Marist Fathers, Salasian sisters, volunteer organizations and regular employees.
Private, with some government subsidies, High school
Motto
"Taofi Mau le Faatuatua" ("Cling Fast to the Faith")
Denomination
Catholic, but open to all students
Patron saint(s)
St. Peter Chanel
Status
Open
Authority
Catholic Education (Samoa Diocese)
Principal
Fr. Mika Tuimavave
Grades
9-13
Color(s)
Blue and White
Website
www.chanelcollege.org
HistoryEdit
Founded in 1962 by the Marist Fathers, it was originally a boys-only boarding school (with special permission for non-boarders) that later became co-educational. The first principal was Father Bernard Doherty. The first head prefect was Lino Samoa, who later received from his family his chiefly title of "Taupa'u".
Enrollment numbers (in 2008) exceeded 400 students.
AbuseEdit
At least one priest who taught at Chanel College is alleged to have been a pedophile.
Father Francis A Durning, SM, MA. In 2009, the Society of Mary (Marists) in New Zealand accepted a complaint that one of its priests, a former teacher at Chanel College (in 1975), Francis Durning, had sexually abused children.[1] He was mentioned in the NZ Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care hearings in Nov. 2020.[2]
ReferencesEdit
^"Wellington Catholic school has no records of sex abuse". RNZ. 11 November 2018. from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
^"Royal Commission told Catholic Church needs to stop honouring paedophiles". Stuff. 2020-11-30. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
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