Assignment Record – Rev. Rene Astruc, s.j. |
Start | Stop | Parish/Assignment | Town/Accusations | State/Country | Position | Notes |
1954 San Francisco archbishop was John Joseph Mitty (1935-1961). |
1957 | Alma College | Los Gatos | CA | ||
1957 | France | Tertianship | ||||
1957 Bishop of Fairbanks was Francis Doyle Gleeson, s.j. (1948-1968). |
1963 | St. Michael's | St. Michael's | AK | 1/1 | |
1957 | 1963 | Stebbins, Hamilton, Chaneliak, Kotlik, Bill Moore's Slough | AK | These were stations of St. Michael's. | ||
1963 | 1965 | Holy Cross Mission | Holy Cross | AK | 1/2 | Holly Cross had a grade school with 74 students and a high school with 15 students. |
1963 | 1965 | Pimute, Flat, Shageluk, Railroad CIty, Holikachuk | AK | These were stations of Holy Cross Mission. | ||
1965 Gleeson was succeeded by Robert Louis Whelan, s.j. (1968-1985). |
1970 | St. Mary's | St. Mary | AK | 1/2,1/3 Superior | St. Mary's had a grade school with 124-137 students and a high school with 100-110 students. Both schools had mostly boarders, and some day students. |
1965 | 1970 | Pilot Station | AK | This was a station of St. Mary's. | ||
1970 | 1975 | Chancery | Fairbanks | AK | In the 1971 Directory only, Astruc is listed in the Fairbanks diocesan pages under Comission for Liturgy, Sacred Music and Sacred Art. | In the 1972-1975 Directories Astruc is indexed as at 1316 Peger Rd., which is the address for the Chancery; he is not, however, listed in the Fairbanks diocesan pages. |
1975 | 1976 | Astruc is not indexed in the 1976 Directory, nor is he listed in the Fairbanks diocesan pages. | ||||
1976 | 1978 | Chancery | Fairbanks | AK | Astruc is not indexed in the 1977 or 1978 Directories, but he is listed in the Fairbanks diocesan pages under Commission for Liturgy, Sacred Music and Sacred Art . | |
1978 Anchorage bishop was Francis Thomas Hurley (1976-2001). |
1980 | Jesuit House | Anchorage | AK | 1/1 | |
1980 Fairbanks bishop was Robert Louis Whelan, s.j. (1968-1985). |
1982 | St. Joseph's | Kotlik | AK | 1/1 | |
1980 | 1982 | Emmonak | AK | This was a mission of St. Joseph's in Kotlik. | ||
1982 Anchorage bishop was Francis Thomas Hurley (1976-2001). |
1996 | Jesuit House | Anchorage | AK | ||
1996 | 1998 | France | Per Astruc's obituary, he retired to France in 1996, but returned to Alaska less than a year later. However, Louis J. Renner, s.j. in his book Alaskana Catholic: A History of the Catholic Church in America, writes that Astruc was in France until late 1998, when he returned to Kotlik, AK. | |||
1998 Fairbanks bishop was Michael Joseph Kaniecki, s.j. (1985-2000). |
2001 | St. Joseph's | Kotlik | AK | 1/1 | |
1999 | 2001 | St. Lawrence | Mountain Village | AK | ||
Oct. 2001 Anchorage bishop was Roger Lawrence Schweitz, o.m.i. (2001-). |
June 2002 | Mary Conrad Center Rest Home | Anchorage | AK | Although the Directories list Astruc as at the Joe Prince Jesuit Community in St. Mary's AK (1997-2001), Renner writes that he was moved to the rest home after falling ill. Astruc died June 28, 2002. |
Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1955-2002) • On His Way Home, By Donna Wiench, Northwest Jesuit, Spring 2002
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