Vicar-Apostolic Of New
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Caledonia
~' P|R. Edward Bresson, S.M., the new Vicar Apostolic of New Caledonia,” stated the Procurator of Marist Missions (the Very Rev. Father G. E. Bergeron, S.M.), recently, “will succeed the Most Rev. Dr. C. Chanrion, S.M., who has been Vicar-Apostolic of New Caledonia for 31 years. Dr. Chanrion retired, owing to indifferent health, early in the year.”
Dr. Bresson, who was born in the dio cese of Meaux, France, on July 4, 1884, was appointed pro-Vicar of New Cale donia in 1927, and since then he has con siderably relieved the retiring bishop of many of his responsibilities. Dr. Bresson made his second novitiate at Villa Maria, Hunter’s Hill, in 1925. In 1928 and 1935 he represented New Caledonia at the Provincial Chapter of the Marist Order at Villa Maria, Hunter’s Hill.‘ln 1928 he went to Rome as a delegate of the world Chapter of the Marist Order.
It is probable that Dr. Bresson will be consecrated in Sydney late this year.
Pastor A. G. Stewart, Vice-President of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission, arrived in Western Samoa during 1 July by the Matua.
Mrs. Dudley Harricks, of Kolomban gara Island, Solomons Group, reached Sydney by the July Malaita. She is spend ing furlough at her father’s station pro perty at Nyngan, New South Wales.