Samuel Gaumain

Samuel -Louis -Marie- Antoine Gaumain OFM Cap ( born January 4, 1915 in Saint- Pierre de l' Isle, France; † 20 August 2010) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Moundou in Chad

Life

Samuel -Louis -Marie- Antoine Gaumain occurred on September 28, 1930, the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in Carcassonne in. His first vows he laid on 7 October 1931, studied philosophy and theology in Begles in Toulouse. On January 12, 1936, he made ​​his solemn profession and received on 12 March 1938, the ordination. Initially he worked in the community of Fontenay -le- Comte. In 1948 he went as a missionary to Bouar in the Central African Republic. From 1950 he was in Doba, Chad, worked and built the parish Moundou on.

In 1959 he was called by Pope John XXIII. appointed the first bishop of the diocese raised by a prefecture Moundou. He received his episcopal consecration Thomas Mongo, Bishop of Douala in Cameroon; Co-consecrators were Alphonse- Célestin -Basile baud, Bishop of Berbérati, and Paul -Pierre -Yves Dalmais, Archbishop of Fort -Lamy. Gaumain was a Council Father of all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council of 1962 until 1965. He was a delegate of the Episcopal Conference of Chad at the Synod of Rome in 1971.

His resignation was by Pope Paul VI in 1974. granted.