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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 October 1932Vol. III, No. 3

Tahiti’S New Bishop.

p. 26 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent

Papeete, Sept. 7.

AN interesting ceremony took place at the Catholic Mission at Papeete, when Pere Amedee Nouailles was consecrated as the fourth Vicar Apos tolique of Tahiti, to fill the vacancy left by the decease of His Excellency, the Rev. Andre Etienne Hermel some months ago.

The new Bishop, who comes from France, and belong to the Order of the Sacre Coeur de Picpus, has spent the last few years in various islands of the Tuamotu Archipelago,