Pierre Fallaize

Pierre-Armand-Albert-Lucien Fallaize OMI (born May 25, 1887 in Gonneville-sur-Honfleur , France , † August 10, 1964 in Fort Smith , Northwest Territories , Canada ) was a French religious and Roman Catholic coadjutor vicar of Mackenzie .

Life

Pierre Fallaize attended the Episcopal Boys ' Seminar in Lisieux from 1899 . After his military service, he joined the Order of the Oblates of the Immaculate Virgin Mary on December 8, 1906 and made his first profession on December 25, 1907 . Fallaize received on 11 July 1912, the sacrament of Holy Orders .

In 1913, Pierre Fallaize was sent to the polar mission in Canada. For the next seven years he worked at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake . 1920 Fallaize went to the area around the Great Bear Lake , where he Inuit missionary . He settled in Coppermine on the Arctic Ocean .

On June 23, 1931, Pope Pius XI appointed him . to titular bishop of Thmuis and coadjutor vicar of Mackenzie. The Vicar Apostolic of Mackenzie, Gabriel Breynat OMI, donated him episcopal ordination on September 13 of the same year ; Co-consecrators were the Vicar Apostolic of Keewatin , Ovid Charlebois OMI, and the Vicar Apostolic of Grouard , Joseph-Wilfrid Guy OMI.

Pierre Fallaize resigned as coadjutor vicar of Mackenzie in 1939. Fallaize, who was now blind, returned to France, where he became a confessor at the Basilica of Sainte-Thérèse in Lisieux. In 1961, Pierre Fallaize returned to the Canada Mission and settled in Fort Smith .

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SURNAME	Fallaize, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fallaize, Pierre-Armand-Albert-Lucien (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French religious, Roman Catholic coadjutor vicar of Mackenzie
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gonneville-sur-Honfleur , France
DATE OF DEATH	August 10, 1964
Place of death	Fort Smith , Northwest Territories , Canada