Hervé Marie Le Cléac'h SS. CC. (11 March 1915 – 13 August 2012) was a French

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of the

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. Hervé Marie Le Cléac'h was born in

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, and was ordained a priest on 18 December 1943 from the

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, the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Hervé-Marie Le Cléac'h was appointed

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of Taiohae o Tefenuaenatal on 1 March 1973 and received his episcopal consecration on 24 June 1973. He resigned governance of the see on 31 May 1986. Le Cléac'h died on 13 August 2012. In January 1997 he was made an officer of the Order of Tahiti Nui.

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