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Aloys Elloy

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Aloys Elloy
S.M.
Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania
Church Catholic Church
See Vicariate Apostolic of Central Oceania
In office 11 April 1877 – 22 November 1878
Predecessor Pierre Bataillon
Successor Jean-Amand Lamaze
Other posts Apostolic Administrator of Archipelago of the Navigators (1870-1878)
Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Mauretania (1863-1878)
Previous post Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania (1863-1877)
Orders
Ordination 19 June 1853
Consecration 30 November 1864
by Pierre Bataillon
Personal details
Born 1829
Servigny-lès-Raville, Moselle, Kingdom of France
Died 22 November 1878 (aged 48–49)

Aloys Elloy (born 1829) was a French clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tonga. He joined the Marist Fathers in 1852 and was sent as a missionary to Samoa.[1] He was appointed bishop in 1863. He died in 1878.[2][3]

References

  1. Back to citation Fitzgerald, Michael; Grossin, François (2011). Alive in Memory: A Biographic Necrology of Oceania Marist Province, 1836-2011 (PDF). Suva: Oceania Marist Province. p. 247. Retrieved 6 March 2026.
  2. Back to citation http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dtong.html CH
  3. Back to citation "Death of Bishop Elloy". Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette. Vol. 2, no. 71. 8 February 1879. p. 2. Retrieved 8 November 2022 – via Papers Past.