Cl%C3%A9ment Bonnand

Mgr. Clment BONNAND was a missionary of Paris Foreign Missions Society and was the Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry fromApril 1850 until his death onMarch 1861.

He was born on May 20, 1796 in SaintMauricesurDargoire, France, he was ordained priest on June 17, 1821. He served for some time as an assistant in a parish of his own diocese. He joined the MEP Seminary on November 14, 1823. He left for the Malabar Mission on February 4, 1824 and served first at Phirangipuram in Andhra Pradesh.

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