Name/Title
Bishop Gulfstan RopertDescription
Gulstan Ropert, SS.CC., (August 30, 1839 – January 4, 1903) of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary served as the third vicar apostolic of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Sandwich Islands — now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, from 1892 to 1903.(
Latin: Congregatio Sacrorum Cordium Iesu et Mariæ) abbreviated SS.CC., is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for priests and brothers.
The Bishop elect, V. Rev. Francis Gulstan Ropert was born in the diocese of Vannes, Brittany, France, in 1839. He was educated for the priesthood in the seminary of St. Anna and received his ordination in the Cathedral of Notre Dame of Paris on May 26, 1866. With three companions he left his native country Sept. 21st the year following and arrived here June 9, 1868. For 15 consecutive years he discharged the duties of the sacred ministry in the Hamakua and Kohala districts of Hawaii until he succeeded the V. Rev. Father Leonor at Wailuku, Maui, in 1883. Last year he was appointed Vice-Provincial of this Mission and in February of the current year he came to Honolulu, where he has ever since resided at the St. Louis College. After the death of the late Bishop he became Provincial and performed, in a great measure, the arduous church work of the deceased prelate.Created By
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