Jean Louis Joseph Derouet

French missionary
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IntroFrench missionary
A.K.A.Jean Derouet
A.K.A.Jean Derouet
PlacesFrance
wasPriest
Work fieldReligion
Gender
Male
Religion:Catholic church
Birth31 January 1866, Saint-Denis-de-Villenette, France
Death4 March 1914Loango, Republic of Congo (aged 48 years)
Star signAquarius
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Biography

Jean Derouet , a Roman Catholic missionary bishop, was of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and titular Bishop of Camachus. He was born at Saint-Denis-de-Villenette, Diocese of Séez, Orne, France, 31 January 1866. Ordained in 1891, he went as missionary to the Congo, and in 1904 was named pro-Vicar Apostolic of Loango. He was chosen bishop on 19 December 1906; consecrated 3 February 1907, in the chapel of the Holy Ghost, at Paris; preconized on 18 April of the same year; and appointed Vicar Apostolic of Lower French Congo.

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