Marcel-Auguste-Marie Grandin (January 16,1885–August 4, 1947) was a French Roman Catholic bishop. Born in

Beaulandais Beaulandais is a former commune in the Orne department in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Juvigny Val d'Andaine.Normandy, he entered the

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, being ordained a priest in 1912. Assigned to Ubangi-Shari, he was made head of the local Catholic Church in 1928, and appointed bishop of Bangui in 1937. Grandin played an important role in the religious and political life of

Barthélemy Boganda Barthélemy Boganda (c. 1910 – 29 March 1959) was a Central African politician and independence activist. Boganda was active prior to his country's independence, during the period when the area, part of French Equatorial Africa, was administe ...

, ordaining him in 1938 and encouraging him to run for the

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in 1946. Grandin died in Bangui. Boganda, who had great respect for him, henceforth distanced himself from the church hierarchy.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grandin, Marcel 1885 births 1947 deaths People from Orne Holy Ghost Fathers French Roman Catholic bishops in Africa Roman Catholic bishops of Bangui