Octave Marie Terrienne MSC (9 September 1902 – 4 March 1994) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the apostolic vicariate of the Gilbert Islands from 1937 until 1961, when Pierre Guichet succeeded him.

He was bishop of Menelaites (a titular see) from 1938 to 1961 as Vicar Apostolic of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. After building there the biggest church of the colony in 1936, Bishop Terrienne established the vicariate see in Tanaeang, on North Tabiteuea, instead of Ocean Island, headquarters of the British Colony, or Tarawa, the former capital, where it was transferred at the end of 1950s.

Octave Terrienne

He was ordained Priest on 27 January 1929 and consecrated Bishop on 25 June 1938 at Nantes Cathedral. He was then the youngest Roman Catholic bishop at only 36.

Octave Terrienne

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External links

The British Museum: Bishop Octave-Marie Terrienne

Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru

1902 births

French Roman Catholic bishops in Oceania

20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in British Overseas Territories

French expatriates in Kiribati

1994 deaths

Roman Catholic bishops of Tarawa and Nauru

Missionaries of the Sacred Heart

Octave Terrienne