Type: | Father |
Camille DesRosiers | |
Honorific-Suffix: | S.M. |
Ecclesiastical Superior of the Mission Sui Iuris of Funafuti | |
Archdiocese: | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Suva |
Diocese: | Roman Catholic Mission Sui Iuris of Funafuti |
Term Start: | 14 July 1986 |
Term End: | 24 September 2010 |
Predecessor: | John Rodgers |
Successor: | John Ikataere Rarikin |
Ordination: | 4 June 1955 |
Rank: | Priest |
Birth Date: | 14 October 1928 |
Birth Place: | Grand-Métis, Quebec, Canada |
Death Place: | St Augustin, Quebec, Canada |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Father Camille DesRosiers, S.M. (14 October 1928 − 16 May 2016) was a Canadian-born Roman Catholic priest who served as the Ecclesiastical Superior of the Mission Sui Iuris of Funafuti from 1986 to 2010.[1]
DesRosiers was born in Grand-Métis, Quebec, Canada. In the young age, he joined an Institute of Consecrated Life of Society of Mary (Marists) and was professed on 8 September 1950 and ordained as priest on 4 June 1955.[1] After ordination in served in Samoa, American Samoa[1] and on Nukunonu in Tokelau.[2] In November 1985 he was asked to introduce Bishop John Rodgers to the people of Tuvalu as the new Ecclesiastical Superior. When Rodgers retired due to ill-health in 1986, DesRosiers was appointed to replace him.[1] He spent 25 years in Tuvalu, before retiring in 2011.[1]