Aloys Elloy
Aloys Elloy | |
|---|---|
| Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| See | Vicariate Apostolic of Central Oceania |
| In office | 11 April 1877 – 22 November 1878 |
| Predecessor | Pierre Bataillon |
| Successor | Jean-Amand Lamaze |
| Other posts | Apostolic Administrator of Archipelago of the Navigators (1870-1878) Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Mauretania (1863-1878) |
| Previous post | Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania (1863-1877) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 19 June 1853 |
| Consecration | 30 November 1864 by Pierre Bataillon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1829 |
| Died | 22 November 1878 (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
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dtong.html CH
- ^ "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.