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  Jean-Rémy Bessieux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean-Rémy Bessieux, also seen as Jean-Rémi or Jean René (24 December 1803 - 30 April 1876) was the founder of the Roman Catholic mission in Gabon and the first bishop to serve there.
Travelling with Brother Grégoire Say, Bessieux arrived in Gabon September 1844, and settled at Okolo, a village in the Agekaza-Quaben clan's area, not far from the French fort.
Bessieux was remembered on the 100th anniversary of his death by a postage stamp of Gabon.
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 1994 African Synod: Interventions
Having arrived in Libreville on the 28th of September 1844, with his brother Gregory, Father Jean Rémy Bessieux offered the first Eucharistic sacrifice in Gabon on the 29th of September 1844.
On arrival in Gabon, the first missionaries tried to transmit the faith and the Western "values of civilization" according to the instructions given by Father Libermann.
So, Father Bessieux built the first school with a center for apprenticeship four months after his arrival and in 1856 the "School of Latinists", the seminary which gave the first Gabonese priest Walker RAPONDA, in 1891.
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