Jules C. E. Riotte

The Right Reverend Archimandrite Dr. Jules C. E. Riotte (1901–May 6, 2000), was a priest of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas in Chicago, and a researcher at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu. He was born in Dresden, Germany. During the Second World War, he was active in the resistance movement against the Nazis and he was briefly interned in a concentration camp. After the War he moved to Great Britain and worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation as a translator of German and Slavic languages. He became a Roman Catholic priest and moved to Canada, where he served in many different parishes and missions. He was also a research associate at the Department of Entomology at the Royal Ontario Museum and he eventually published over 100 papers in the field. In 1975, Fr. Riotte moved to Hawai‘i, where he worked as a researcher in entomology at the Bishop Museum. He resided at St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church in Kalihi and also served as pastor and episcopal vicar to Eastern Rite Catholics in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, Hawai‘i, conducting daily Divine Liturgy in the Kalihi church. Later, a permanent Ukrainian Catholic church was built in Wai‘anae on Lualualei Homestead Road, and dedicated under the title of Saint Sophia. He was a prolific author of many papers in Hawaiian entomology.