French Mission

Date Formed
1850 June 18
Date Ended
1939 December 14
Location Formed
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Organization Type
Ecclesiastical
Organization Area
Europe
Organization Participants in Database
373

The French Mission was organized 18 June 1850. Soon after French publications of Church works began. The publication of Étoile du Déséret began in May 1851 and ran until April 1852. The French translation of the Book of Mormon, overseen and completed by officers of the French Mission, came off the press in January 1852. The mission closed in 1864, though missionary work did continue under the direction of the other missions in Europe.

On 15 October 1912 the mission was reorganized. It was decided that the French Mission would encompass not only France but also French-speaking areas of the Swiss-German and Netherlands missions. The outbreak of World War I forced the mission close two years later, on 18 September 1914.

The French Mission was reorganized on 1 December 1923 with France, Belgium, and the French-speaking parts of Switzerland. The headquarters was in Geneva, Switzerland. The outbreak of World War II would give way to another closure on 14 December 1939.

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John Taylor Set Apart as Mission President

1849 October 7 – 1851 December 21

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Ended On 1851 December 21
Departed from the Field

Formed in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

1850 June 18

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Occurred On 1850 June 18
Formed

Curtis Edwin Bolton Called as Mission President

1851 December 20 – 1853 October 17

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Ended On 1853 October 17
Departed from the Field

Andrew Losee Lamoreaux Called as Mission President

1852 August 28 – 1854

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Ended On 1854
Released

William Cameron Dunbar Called as Mission President

1854 December 2 – 1856 July 26

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Ended On 1856 July 26
Departed from the Field

George Dennis Keaton, Jr. Called as Mission President

1855 December 8 – 1858

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Ended On 1858
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Mark Barnes Departed from Home as Mission President

1858 May 18 – 1859

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Ended On 1859
Departed from the Field

Louis Auguste Bertrand Called as Mission President

1859 September 17 – 1864 June 3

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Ended On 1864 June 3
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Edgar Bernard Brossard Set Apart as Mission President

1912 October 15 – 1914 May 10

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Ended On 1914 May 10
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Benjamin Francis Howells Called as Mission President

1914 May 10 – September 18

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Ended On 1914 September 18
Departed from the Field

Russell Henry Blood Called as Mission President

1923 December 26 – 1925 August 30

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Ended On 1925 August 30
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Ernest Crabtree Rossiter Set Apart as Mission President

1925 July 28 – 1928 September 20

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Ended On 1928 September 20
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Golden LeGrand Woolf Set Apart as Mission President

1929 December 4 – 1933 June 30

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Ended On 1933 June 30
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Daniel Joseph Lang Called as Mission President

1933 May 20 – 1936 January 31

Octave Frederick Ursenbach Set Apart as Mission President

1936 January 31 – 1938 July 9

Joseph Ephraim Evans Set Apart as Mission President

1938 June 10 – 1939 October 26

Gaston Chappuis Set Apart as Mission President

1939 August 30 – 1940 September 6

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Ended On 1940 September 6
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Ended

1939 December 14

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Occurred On 1939 December 14
Ended

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French (1850 - ?) Profile
French (1850 - ?) Profile
The Lyons District
The Lyons District
Missionaries Transferred from the French Mission
Missionaries Transferred from the French Mission
The First Bordeaux District
The First Bordeaux District
Missionnaires des districts de Belgique et Paris
Missionnaires des districts de Belgique et Paris