Rev Louis Cochard MSC

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Louis

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Cochard

Order:

MSC

Date of Birth:

14-Nov-1870

Place of Birth:

St Emile, Loire

Country of Birth:

France

Date of Ordination:

30-Jun-1895

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Papua New Guinea

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

20-Jul-1933

Place of Death:

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

1933

Place of Burial:

Reinterred 1947: Douglas Park NSW

Country of Burial:

Australia

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Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
End Month
End Year
Source
Hobart Longford19041917Linane Vol 2; Campbell
Sydney Douglas ParkNovice Master19171922Linane Vol 2; Campbell
Hobart Burnie1925Linane Vol 2
Hobart CathedralLinane Vol 2
Hobart WynyardLinane Vol 2
Sydney Campbelltown
Port Pirie Kadina1929Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants
Armidale Glen Innes1930Campbell
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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 55:

Cochard, Louis, MSC, French
Novice Master in the Sacred Heart Fathers
Cochard was born at St. Emile on 14 November 1870. Profession took place in France on 4 October 1890. Service in the humble mission of Bereina under Bishop Navarre (living at Thursday Island) fell to Cochard's lot. After 11 years of hard and faithful pioneering service he was transferred to the small mission of Longford in Tasmania. This was followed by a five year term as Novice Master at Douglas Park from 1917 to 1922. Directories show that a second missionary term was spent in Tasmania: at Burnie (1925), St. Joseph's Cathedral and Wynyard. Ill-health had compelled him to leave New Guinea, and after years of hard and consistent service in Tasmania and Sydney there came a further deterioration. He died on 20 July 1933 at the age of 62. Seemingly he was interred first at Waverley, and on 28 June 1947 was re-interred at St. Mary's Towers, Douglas Park.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 6)
Ref.: MSC Archives, Canberra.

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T.W. Campbell, The Priests of the Diocese of Armidale: A Necrology, Braddon ACT, 2005:
Cochard, Louis (MSC)

Born at St Emilien, Loire, France, 12 November 1870. He was educated at the Minor Seminary Issoudun. After military service he joined the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and was professed as a member of the Order on 4 October 1890. After completion of studies he went to Papua as a Scholastic (1893), where he was ordained on 30 June 1895 by Archbishop Navarre. He spent 11 years in the mission field, at Mou and Bereina in Papua, until forced by ill health to return to Australia in 1904. He then spent 15 years in the MSC community in Tasmania, returned to Sydney and was appointed to the staff of Douglas Park novitiate and Apostolic School, where he spent eight years as Novice Master. He then was appointed chaplain of the Benedictine convent, Rydalmere. He spent a short time in the Armidale diocese, based at Glen Innes, about 1930. He suffered from ill health in his later years. He died 20 July 1933 and was buried at Randwick cemetery in the MSC plot, but his remains were transferred to Douglas Park and re-interred in the MSC cemetery on 28 June 1947.
(Sources: SMH 22 July 1933, FJ 27 July 1933 p14, ACD (1931), G&S, Langmore, MDHC A-Z C97).

(Reproduced by permission of Tom Campbell.)

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Fr Frank Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants: Recalling the Spirit of the Deceased Priests of the Diocese of Port Augusta and Port Pirie 1888-2008, 2008:
Cochard, Louis, MSC
Left Kadina 1929; Died: 20/7/1933

(Reproduced with the approval of Sister Mary Cresp RSM)