Adolphe Lechaptois, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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tanzanian bishop
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Place of Birth: Cuillé, Pays de la Loire, France
About Adolphe Lechaptois
- Adolphe Lechaptois (8 June 1852 – 30 November 1917) was a priest of the White Fathers missionary society who was Vicar Apostolic of Tangyanika from 1891 until his death in 1917, in what is now Tanzania.
- He took responsibility for the vicariate at a time of great danger, when the missions were insecure havens for people fleeing slavers.
- As the country settled down, he oversaw expansion in the number of missions and schools.
- He was the author of a book on the ethnography of the local people that won a prize from the French Société de Géographie.
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