Bernard Bernard

Bernard Bernard ( born July 21, 1821 in Mogues, France, † 1895) was a French Catholic priest and missionary in Norway, Iceland and Scotland. He was Prefect of the North Pole Mission from 1862 to 1869 and the first prefect of Norway and Lapland 1869-1887.

Life

Training as a priest in Rome, ordained priest in Reims by Cardinal Thomas -Marie -Joseph Gousset ( 1792-1866 ). After Bernard few years was parish priest in the French Ardennes, he reached in 1856 in Norway, where he was in the service of the Catholic North Pole Mission ( Praefectura Apostolica Poli Arctici ) was asked whose Prefect it by April 20, 1862 up to the end of April / May 1869 was.

1856 Bernard was further sent to Iceland, which was a part of the North Pole mission then and which he reached in 1857. Bernard and his compatriot Jean -Baptiste Baudoin (1831-1875), who reached Iceland in 1858, they were the first two Catholic priests in Iceland since the Reformation. They set up in 1864 a small chapel on the 1859 they acquired farm Landakot near Reykjavík. However, all in all she and her projects a more than problematic state and while Bernard in 1862 left the country, Baudoin remained until 1875, but recorded no major successes there.

On August 17, 1869 Bernard was appointed Prefect Apostolic of Norway and Lapland, based in Trondheim. For health reasons, he resigned from this post in 1887 and then left Norway. His successor was the Luxembourg Prester John Olaf Fallize (1844-1933), from 1892 under which the mission ( in the humble frame) evolved as Titular Bishop of Eluza, constantly.