Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, S.M.A. (16 November 1917 – 4 February 2012) was a French

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of the

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. Rouanet was born in Mazamet, France and ordained a priest in the society of apostolic life, the

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on 4 July 1948. He was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Daloa on 4 July 1956 and ordained bishop on 29 November 1956. He resigned from governance of the see on 20 November 1975.

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1917 births 2012 deaths People from Mazamet French Roman Catholic bishops in Africa 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ivory Coast Participants in the Second Vatican Council French Roman Catholic missionaries Roman Catholic missionaries in Ivory Coast French expatriates in Ivory Coast Roman Catholic bishops of Daloa {{france-RC-bishop-stub