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Eugène Klein
French Roman Catholic bishop From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eugène Klein (1916 – 1992, born in Avenheim) was a French Catholic priest and member of the congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
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He was appointed a bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic of Yule Island in Papua New Guinea in 1960 and the diocesan bishop when the territory became the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bereina in 1966.
In 1971 he was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Nouméa in New Caledonia, where he succeeded as Archbishop on 7 April 1972, serving until his resignation was accepted on 19 June 1981.[1] He died in 1992.[2]
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