Alexis Canoz S.J., (8 September 1805 – 2 December 1888) was a

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missionary in India and was the first bishop of

Trichy Tiruchirappalli () ( formerly Trichinopoly in English), also called Tiruchi or Trichy, is a major tier II city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli district. The city is credited with bein ...

. He was born on 8 September 1805 at Sellières, France. In 1846 the

Madura Mission Madura Mission or Madurai Mission is a Jesuit mission in South India dating from the time of Portuguese colonisation in the province of Goa, comprising the west coast down to Calicut and the interior districts of the Deccan and Mysore, and that ...

was made into a vicariate Apostolic with Msgr. Canoz as its first vicar Apostolic; He was ordained a bishop on 29 Jun 1847 by Archbishop Louis (de Sainte Thérèse) Martini, with Bishop

Clément Bonnand Mgr. Clément BONNAND (20 May 1796 – 21 March 1861) was a missionary of Paris Foreign Missions Society and was the Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry from 3 April 1850 until his death on 21 March 1861. He was born on 20 May 1796 in Saint-Maur ...

and Bishop Marion-Brésillac acting as Principal Co-Consecrators. In 1886, on the establishment of the catholic hierarchy in India, the Madura Vicariate was made the Diocese of Trichy with Msgr. Canoz becoming its first bishop. He participated in the first Vatican council as a Church father.

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