Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 15:

Calinon, Philippe, SM, French
Many Years in Tonga
Regrettably only the uncoloured essentials of dates can be supplied. He was born in the St. Cloud Diocese, France. Professed as a Marist on 11 March 1843. Arrived in Sydney on way to the Pacific Mission in 1845. He returned to Sydney for the period 1867-1869, being stationed at the Marist training centre for Pacific Islanders at Clydesdale, near Penrith. The remaining eight years of service were on the Tongan Mission. Death date: 8 April 1877. Age: 71.
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 12)

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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 99, 295:

Fr. Philippe Calinon, d. 1877
Tonga - Sydney
He was born in Jura, France in 1806. A diocesan priest, he joined the Society in 1843, at the age of 37, and arrived in Tonga in the following year. He was in charge of the Mission at Pea when King George laid siege to that village for 5 months in 1852. He went to Tahiti twice seeking French help for the missionaries in Tonga, and, in 1855, King George signed a convention to prevent discrimination against Catholics in Tonga. He then established a Catholic community on Ha'apai. In 1867, ill health forced him to go to Sydney. There he was made superior of the seminary for Oceanian vocations at Clydesdale. A few years later the seminary was moved back to Wallis. He then returned to Tonga, where he died aged 71.