Jean Baptiste Pompallier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Roman Catholic missionary and bishop
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Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Jean Baptiste Pompallier
- Jean-Baptiste François Pompallier (11 December 1802 – 21 December 1871) was the first Roman Catholic bishop in New Zealand and, with priests and brothers of the Marist order, he organised the Roman Catholic Church throughout the country.
- He was born in Lyon, France.
- He arrived in New Zealand in 1838 as Vicar Apostolic of Western Oceania, but made New Zealand the centre of his operations.
- In 1848 he became the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland.
- He returned to France in 1868 and died in Puteaux, near Paris, on 21 December 1871, aged 69.
- His exhumed remains were returned to New Zealand in 2001 and they were re-interred under the altar at St Mary's, Motuti, in 2002.
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