Rev André Chapuy SM
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André
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Chapuy
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SM
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France
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney | Sydney | Visitor | 1851 | Linane Vol 2 |
Biographical Notes
Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 34:
Chapuy, Andre, SM, French, Visitor
Thirty Years Service in New Caledonia
This Marist was born in the Avignon Diocese on 30 November 1813. His was a late vocation and he received Marist profession on 31 May 1847. He passed through Sydney in 1851, en route to New Caledonia where he was destined to give 30 years of service. He died at Ouen, New Caledonia Vicariate on 15 June 1882, at the age of 69.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 3)
Ref.: Father John Hosie S.M., Marist Historian, Sydney.
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Fr. Michael Fitzgerald, SM and Fr. François Grossin, SM, Alive in Memory: A Biographic Necrology of Oceania Marist Province 1836-2011, 4th edition, Suva, 2011, pp 134, 295:
Fr. André Chapuy, d. 1882
New Caledonia
He was born in Vaucluse, France in 1813. He was ordained a diocesan priest, but entered the Society in order to go to Oceania. He was professed in 1847. The following year, at the age of 35, he arrived at the Isle of Pines, after spending one year on Anatom, Vanuatu. He was renowned as an amateur engineer and inventor and in this way able to help the new difficult and isolated mission in many ways. He made an hydraulic sawmill and a small steamer boat. He also printed the first catechism in a Kanak language in 1854. From the Island of Ouen, where he was appointed in 1865, he ranged along the eastern Coast as far as Canala, on the mission boat, the 'Ark of the Covenant'. He died on the island of Ouen aged 69.