Some Significant Australia/Pacific/Asia/April Days for the Chevalier Family.

5 April, 1925

Arrival of the first three MSC Sisters from Hiltrup, in Vunapope (PNG), after World War I.
                   

7 April, 1892

Bishop Verius leaves Yule island for France. He will not see the mission again.

7 April, 1949.

Father Harry Reid, Australia, given mandate by Provincial Council to examine the possibility of an MSC Mission in Japan.

12 April, 1914

First Provincial Chapter of the Australian FDNSC Province.

16 April, 1881

Chevalier accepts the two Vicariates of Melanesia and Micronesia offered by the Congregation of the propagation of the Faith.

17 April, 1872

Henri Verius enters the petite oeuvre at Chazal Benoit.

18 April, 1895

Parish of Botany, Australia, given to the MSC.

20 April, 1895,

First Belgian MSC, Fr. Joseph Lebeau, leaves for the Gilbert Islands mission, Kiribati.

22 April, 1932

Father Frank Lyons, Australia, takes up residence for the first time at Sideia, Eastern Papua.

23 April, 1906.

Fr F.X Gsell is appointed Apostolic Administrator of Victoria-Palmerston, later called Darwin, Australia.

27 April, 1960

Fr. Virgil Copas, Australia, appointed first Vicar Apostolic of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, ordained Bishop in Toowoomba.

28 April, 1975

The name of the Sideia/Samurai diocese, Papua New Guinea, change to the diocese of Alotau.

28 April, 1988

The Central Pacific Region of the PNG Pro-Province becomes the MSC Pacific Union.

28 April, 1988

Canonical erection of religious house for MSC in India in the Vivekanagar suburb of Bangalore, directly under the General Superior.