Antonin-Fernand Drapier (28 April 1891 – 30 July 1967) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the

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. He was born on 28 April 1891 in Creuë-en-Woëvre, France. He was ordained priest of the

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on 24 April 1924. He was named titular archbishop of Neocesarea di Ponto and Apostolic Delegate to Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Lesser Armenia on 7 October 1929. He received his episcopal consecration on 22 December 1929 from

François David François David (October 14, 1870 - October 1, 1939), an ethnic Assyrian people, Assyrian, was the Chaldean Catholic Church, Chaldean Catholic Bishop of Amadiyah in Iraq. He was consecrated as bishop by Chaldean Patriarch Yousef VI Emmanuel II Tho ...

, Bishop of the

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. He was appointed Apostolic Delegate to Indochina on 28 November 1936. He retired in 1950 and died on 30 July 1967.

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1891 births 1967 deaths Participants in the Second Vatican Council 20th-century Roman Catholic titular archbishops French Dominicans Dominican bishops Apostolic Nuncios to Iraq People from Meuse (department) {{france-RC-archbishop-stub