Catholicism was introduced in La Réunion in 1665, when the island was
settled by the French.
It was first organised as an Apostolic Prefecture, becoming a Diocese in
1850. This was first a suffragan to the French Archdiocese of Bordeaux but
later it became exempt.
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Bishops
1857 - 1871 Armand René Maupoint 1810 - 1871
1872 - 1876 Victor Jean-Baptiste Paulin Delannoy 1824 - 1905
1877 - 1880 Dominique Clément Marie Soulé 1827 - 1919
1881 - 1887 Joseph Coldefy 1826 - 1887
1888 - 1892 Edmond Frédéric Fuzet 1839 - 1915
1893 - 1917 Jacques Paul Antonin Fabre 1837 - 1919
1918 - 1934 Georges Marie Joseph Bonnin de la Bonninière
de Beaumont 1872 - 1934
1935 - 1960 François Émile Cléret de Langavant 1896 - 19..
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