Alexis Bachelot
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, was a Catholic priest best known for his tenure as the first Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands. In that role, he led the first permanent Catholic mission to the Kingdom of Hawaii. Bachelot was raised in France, where he attended the Irish College in Paris, and was ordained a priest in 1820.
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in 2006
1816 painting of Queen Kaʻahumanu, who deported Bachelot from Hawaii in 1831
Portrait of the young King Kamehameha III
1837 painting of King Kamehameha III meeting with Captain Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars and Captain Edward Belcher
Visit of L'Abbe Maigret to the Tomb of the persecuted Bachelot, Island of Ascension, woodcuts by Jules Dudoit, c. 1839.Religious Figures from France 6
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Alexis Bachelot, SS.CC., was a Catholic priest best known for his tenure as the first Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands. In that role, he led the first permanent Catholic mission to the Kingdom of Hawaii. Bachelot was raised in France, where he attended the Irish College in Paris, and was ordained a priest in 1820. He led the first Catholic mission to Hawaii, arriving in 1827. Although he had expected the approval of then Hawaiian King Kamehameha II, he learned upon arrival that Kamehameha II had died and a new government that was hostile towards Catholic missionaries had been installed. Bachelot, however, was able to convert a small group of Hawaiians and quietly minister to them for four years before being deported in 1831 on the orders of Kaʻahumanu, the Kuhina Nui of Hawaii.
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