Aloys Elloy

Aloys Elloy

Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania
ChurchCatholic Church
SeeVicariate Apostolic of Central Oceania
In office11 April 1877 – 22 November 1878
PredecessorPierre Bataillon
SuccessorJean-Amand Lamaze
Other postsApostolic Administrator of Archipelago of the Navigators (1870-1878)
Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Mauretania (1863-1878)
Previous postCoadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania (1863-1877)
Orders
Ordination19 June 1853
Consecration30 November 1864
by Pierre Bataillon
Personal details
Born1829 (1829)
Died22 November 1878(1878-11-22) (aged 48–49)

Aloys Elloy (born in 1829 in Servigny-les-Raville) was a French clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tonga. He joined the Marist Fathers in 1852 and was sent as a missionary to Samoa.[1] He was appointed bishop in 1863. He died in 1878.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Fitzgerald, Michael; Grossin, François (2011). Alive in Memory: A Biographic Necrology of Oceania Marist Province, 1836-2011 (PDF). Suva: Oceania Marist Province. p. 247. Retrieved 6 March 2026.
  2. ^ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dtong.html CH
  3. ^ "Death of Bishop Elloy". Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette. Vol. 2, no. 71. 8 February 1879. p. 2. Retrieved 8 November 2022 – via Papers Past.