Rev Koneta Cognet SM
Title:
Rev
First Name:
Claude
Middle Names:
Preferred Name:
Koneta
Surname:
Cognet
Order:
SM
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Lyons
Country of Birth:
France
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
Country of Ordination:
Ordination Diocese:
Seminary:
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Country of Death:
New Zealand
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Pukekaraka, Otaki
Country of Burial:
New Zealand
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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 | 1885 | Linane Vol 2 | |||||
| Wellington | Wanganui | 1899 | Linane Vol 2 | ||||||
| Wellington | Okato | Linane Vol 2 | |||||||
| Wellington | Otaki | Dec | 1912 | 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 60:
Cognet, Claude, SM, French, Visitor
Scholar of the Classical Maori Language
As is the practice in this listing, mention is made of passers-by, such as the priests going to their assignments to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Claude Cognet was such a one, passing through Sydney in 1885. He was born on 3 December 1858 in the Lyons Diocese receiving his Marist Profession on 19 March 1880. Seemingly he spent his career of close on three years in attending to the Maoris, becoming proficient in their language. A casual survey of Directories shows that he was stationed at Wanganui River (Wellington Diocese (1899); Okato (1908). At this time there were close on 200 Maori converts on the latter mission. Claudius, as he was called, was in charge of the wide-ranging mission of Otaki (Wellington Diocese) in the last few years of life, and where the Maori Catholics numbered 800. He died on Christmas Eve 1912 at the age of 53. Presumably his remains rest in Otaki.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 7)
Ref.: Father John Hosie S.M., Appendix to 'The Marist Fathers in Australia' (M.A. Thesis, Sydney, 1971).