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Jean-Jerome Adam
(8 June 1904 ? 11 July 1981) was the
French
Roman Catholic
archbishop
of
Libreville
,
Gabon
, and an accomplished
linguist
who studied several of the languages of Gabon.
He was born at
Wittenheim
in
Alsace
and educated in the seminaries of the
Holy Ghost Fathers
. He arrived in Gabon on 29 September 1929, and spent the next 18 years as a
missionary
in the
Haut-Ogooue Province
. During that time he prepared
grammars
for the
Mbede
,
Ndumu
, and
Duma
languages.
In 1947, Adam was appointed
Vicar Apostolic
of Libreville and
bishop
of the
titular see
of
Rhinocorura
; he became bishop of Libreville when it was elevated to a
diocese
in 1955, and he was made archbishop of the see in 1958. He retired in 1969 and moved to
Franceville
, where he died in 1981.
References
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- David E. Gardinier,
Historical Dictionary of Gabon
, 2nd ed. (The Scarecrow Press, 1994) p. 31
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