It depends on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, yet it is exceptionally not exempt, but instead is a suffragan of a Metropolitan archdiocese.
Its only place of worship is Teone Church in Vaiaku, on Fongafale island in Tuvalu.
On June 3, 2024, Pope Francis appointed Mission Society of the Philippines' Fr.
He succeeded Reynaldo B. Getalado, M. S. P., appointed in 2014, who was installed Coadjutor bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rarotonga on April 27.
The vicariate apostolic of the Gilbert Islands became the Diocese of Tarawa in 1966.