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Paul Laurent Jean Louis Mazé

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Installed
  
21 June 1966


Term ended
  
5 March 1973

Successor
  
Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath

Birth name
  
Paul-Laurent-Jean-Louis Maze

Born
  
4 April 1885 Pleyben, France (
1885-04-04
)

Died
  
21 December 1976 (aged 91) Tahiti, French Polynesia

Name
  
Paul-Laurent-Jean-Louis Maze

Paul-Laurent-Jean-Louis Mazé, SS.CC. (1885-1976) was Archbishop, and later Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Papeete, French Polynesia.

Born on 4 April 1885 in Pleyben, France, he was ordained a priest in the order of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary on 25 September 1910, aged 25. The Principal Consecrator was Bishop Pierre-Marie-David Le Cadre, SS.CC.

On 8 November 1938, aged 53, he was appointed as Vicar Apostolic of Tahiti, French Polynesia, and as Titular Bishop of Ascalon and ordained on 30 April 1939.

On 21 June 1966, aged 81, he was appointed Archbishop, retiring on 5 March 1973, aged 87, and became Archbishop Emeritus. He died on 21 December 1976, aged 91.

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Paul-Laurent-Jean-Louis Mazé Wikipedia