Antonin Guillermain was a Catholic missionary who was Vicar Apostolic of Northern Nyanza in what is Uganda from January 1895 until his death in July 1896.
11 Facts About Antonin Guillermain
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Antonin Guillermain was born on 1 January 1861 in Lyon, France.
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Antonin Guillermain became a novice of the White Fathers on 3 September 1883, and was ordained as a priest on 23 September 1887.
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Antonin Guillermain was then assigned to missionary work in Central Africa.
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Antonin Guillermain was to remain in Zanzibar, replacing a missionary who had been assigned to Nyanza.
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Antonin Guillermain went on to Nyanza in September 1890, where he was assigned to the Rubaga mission, near Kampala.
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Antonin Guillermain was briefly held prisoner during the 1892 civil war between supporters of the Anglicans and the Catholics.
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Bishop John Joseph Hirth took the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Nyanza, the English Mill Hill Missionaries took the eastern part, called the Apostolic Vicariate of Upper Nile, and Antonin Guillermain was assigned the western part, called the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Nyanza, now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala.
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On 12 January 1895 Antonin Guillermain was appointed Titular Bishop of Thabraca and Vicar Apostolic of Northern Victoria Nyanza.
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Antonin Guillermain moved the seminary from Rubaga to Kisubi on Lake Victoria in 1895.
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Antonin Guillermain was ordained as bishop on 28 October 1895.