Claude-Marie Chanrion


About Help Contact login Bishop Claude-Marie Chanrion SM Title: Bishop First Name: Claude-Marie Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Chanrion Order: SM Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1865 Place of Birth: Rhône Country of Birth: France Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 17-Oct-1941 Place of Death: Noumea Country of Death: New Caledonia Date of Burial: 1941 Place of Burial: Country of Burial: New Caledonia Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo 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: Chanrion, Claude, Most Rev., SM, French, Visitor, Golden Jubilarian Vicar Apostolic in New Caledonia In some Directories the name is spelt Chaurion. Albeit, he was born on 6 October 1865 in the Lyons Diocese. Profession took place on 24 September 1887. Like all other missioners to the Pacific region he would have passed through Sydney, but the date of his coming is unknown. The 1891 Directory places him in Noumea, N.C.; in Mare, the same Vicariate in 1899. He was appointed Vicar Apostolic to New Caledonia on 1 December 1905 in succession to Hilarion Fraysse, being consecrated on 25 March the following year. The episcopal reign was long - 41 years - and the results, we suppose were correspondingly fruitful. He died on 17 October 1941 at the age of 76, having attained his Golden Jubilee in the priesthood. (Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 3) Ref.: Father John Hosie S.M. Marist Historian, Sydney. --- 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 221-222, 295: Bishop Claude-Marie Chanrion, d. 1941 New Caledonia He was born in Rhône, France in 1865. He was professed a Marist 1887. He arrived in New Caledonia in 1890 aged 24. In 1891, after a period as an assistant at the cathedral, he was put in charge of the minor seminary set up in St. Louis, until its closing in 1895. His next 10 years were spent at La Roche on Mare. In 1905 he was named Pro-Vicar, and a few months later, at the death of Bishop Fraysse, he was ordained Bishop, Vicar Apostolic for New Caledonia. He was then 40 years of age. He directed the Vicariate for 32 years. Under his leadership new foundations were made at Ponerihouen and Nekliai, and the minor seminary reopened at Nakety. In 1937 he resigned because of ill health, retiring at the Bishop's House where he dedicated himself to the prayer apostolate. He died four years later in Noumea, at the age of 76.

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Bishop

First Name:

Claude-Marie

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Surname:

Chanrion

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Date of Birth:

06-Oct-1865

Place of Birth:

Rhône

Country of Birth:

France

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Seminary:

Date of Death:

17-Oct-1941

Place of Death:

Noumea

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New Caledonia

Date of Burial:

1941

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New Caledonia

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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 34:

Chanrion, Claude, Most Rev., SM, French, Visitor, Golden Jubilarian
Vicar Apostolic in New Caledonia
In some Directories the name is spelt Chaurion. Albeit, he was born on 6 October 1865 in the Lyons Diocese. Profession took place on 24 September 1887. Like all other missioners to the Pacific region he would have passed through Sydney, but the date of his coming is unknown. The 1891 Directory places him in Noumea, N.C.; in Mare, the same Vicariate in 1899. He was appointed Vicar Apostolic to New Caledonia on 1 December 1905 in succession to Hilarion Fraysse, being consecrated on 25 March the following year. The episcopal reign was long - 41 years - and the results, we suppose were correspondingly fruitful. He died on 17 October 1941 at the age of 76, having attained his Golden Jubilee in the priesthood.
(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 221-222, 295:

Bishop Claude-Marie Chanrion, d. 1941
New Caledonia
He was born in Rhône, France in 1865. He was professed a Marist 1887. He arrived in New Caledonia in 1890 aged 24. In 1891, after a period as an assistant at the cathedral, he was put in charge of the minor seminary set up in St. Louis, until its closing in 1895. His next 10 years were spent at La Roche on Mare. In 1905 he was named Pro-Vicar, and a few months later, at the death of Bishop Fraysse, he was ordained Bishop, Vicar Apostolic for New Caledonia. He was then 40 years of age. He directed the Vicariate for 32 years. Under his leadership new foundations were made at Ponerihouen and Nekliai, and the minor seminary reopened at Nakety. In 1937 he resigned because of ill health, retiring at the Bishop's House where he dedicated himself to the prayer apostolate. He died four years later in Noumea, at the age of 76.

Bishop Claude-Marie Chanrion SM

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