Auguste-Joseph Chouvet

Fr AUGUSTE-JOSEPH CHOUVET, age on arrival in New Zealand not known. Arrived in Group VII on 18 Feb 1843.

He was professed as a Marist on 13 July 1842. Soon after arrival he was appointed to Opotiki where he stayed for nearly three years. He returned to France with Pompallier on the Rhin which sailed from Akaroa on 16 April 1846. In 1855 he published Un Tour du Monde; the New Zealand section of his book was presented as a monograph A Marist Missionary in New Zealand 1843-1846 (Whakatane 1985). He left the Society of Mary in 1846/7 to continue as a diocesan priest in France.

Chouvet S.M., Joseph Auguste Marie

Born 13/02/1814 Pernes, Vaucluse, France

Died 16/09/1902 Avignon, Vaucluse, France

Ordination 18370520

Profession 18420713

• 1837 Sarrians assistant
• 1839 Bollene assistant

• 18420514 entered Society
• 18420815 from Toulon on Rhin to Hobart 18421227
• 18430104 depart Hobart arrive Sydney 18430115
• 18430122 depart Sydney for Auckland on City of Aberdeen
• 18430215 depart Auckland for Bay of Islands arrive 18430218
• 18430218 Kororareka LRO doc 247
• 18430813-184503 Opotiki LRO doc 300
• 18450315 arrive Auckland from Opotiki Chouvet vol.2 p.246
• 18450629 Kororareka LRO doc 379

problem with sight

• 184602 returned to France on Rhin arrive 18460828 LRO doc 495 / Chouvet vol.2 p.312

Incardinated into Archdiocese of Avignon

• 1846 Bollene assistant
• 1847 Venasque rector
• 1858 Pontet rector
• 1859 Cucuron rector
• 1875 Chanoine de la Métropole Notre Dame des Doms Avignon

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