Bishop Pierre-Jean Broyer SM

Title:

Bishop

First Name:

Pierre-Jean

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Broyer

Order:

SM

Date of Birth:

30-Jan-1846

Place of Birth:

Ain

Country of Birth:

France

Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

27-Oct-1918

Place of Death:

Upolu

Country of Death:

Samoa

Date of Burial:

1918

Place of Burial:

Moamoa, Apia

Country of Burial:

Samoa

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/300080373



Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 35:

Broyer, Pierre, SM Most Rev., French, Visitor
Marist Bishop in Samoa
b. Belley Dioc. in 1846; professed '72. Visitor to Syd. many times, e.g. '74, '84, '89. Served in New Navigator Vicariate before consecration in '96 as Bishop of Samoa. d. Upolo Is., 27.10.1918; age 72.
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 9)
Ref.: Marist Missionaries to the Pacific 1837-1900 - an appendix to the 'Marist Fathers in Australia', by Fr. John Hosie SM, M.A. Thesis, Syd., 1971.

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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 229, 294:

Bishop Pierre Broyer, d. 1918
Pioneer - Bougainville Mission
Samoa - North Solomon Islands
He was born in Ain, France 1846. On the death of his father, his elder brother cared for him, helping him through school. This brother later became a Brother in the Society. In 1847, aged 28, Pierre left with Fr. Jouny for Oceania. He spent 10 years as Procurator for the Mission and was then posted to Samoa. He worked for five years in the mission of Aleipata on Upolu. In 1890 he was named Pro-Vicar and in 1896, at the age of 50, in the Shrine of Fourvière in Lyons, he was ordained Bishop and Vicar Apostolic for Samoa. He held this post for 22 years, building up the Catholic Mission and helping to bring peace between the colonial powers, Britain, Germany and United States who were contesting for possession of the Colony. He bought a number of properties in Samoa, including the 3,000 acres at Moamoa, where he is buried. In 1898 he was appointed Prefect Apostolic of the North Solomon Islands. During the 6 years in which he held this post he made 3 journeys to this difficult Mission, bringing a number of missionaries from Samoa with him to begin the Mission. He died aged 72.