Rev. Fr. Andrew Charvet, OMI

Rev. Fr. Andrew Charvet, OMI

Fr. Andrew Charvet was born on 4^th February 1922 in France. He entered the Novitiate in 1941. He took his Final Profession of Vows in 1945 and was ordained as a Priest in 1948.

Missionary Life of Fr. Andrew Charvet OMI

Fr. Charvet was a man of a rich quality of generous service, concern for others, an apostolic zeal which drove him from France to SriLanka, to Malaysia and to Bangladesh. The youthful years of his priestly ministry was spent in the very difficult missions in SriLanka. He was a giant of a man who met, wrestled with and conquered hardships and difficulties in his stride. After 19 years in Jaffna, SriLanka, he continued his ministry with even more vigour and zeal as an adult missionary for ten years in KualaLampur, in Malaysia. The last ten years of his mature and deep spirituality was reaped by the Church in Bangladesh. The Oblates in Bangladesh owe to his untiring efforts the achievements and progress. He arrived in Bangladesh in 1978 when the Oblate Mission was on the verge of its closure. All the Oblates having left the mission, Fr. Henry Van Hoof, the then Delegation Superior, was single handed. But, with the arrival of Fr. Charvet a new page was turned in the history of the Oblates in Bangladesh. The various Mission centres in the district of Sylhet: Khadim, Kulaura, Mugaipar and Tamabil bear testimony to his courageous ventures and farsighted vision. The two houses of Formation: the scholasticate in Noyanagar and the Juniorate in Farm Gate are the hopes and promises of the future Oblate Mission which he dreamed of. Fr. Charvet was a well-balanced man, a Christian, a Priest and an Oblate: deeply spiritual and yet profoundly human. He mastered the Rules and Constitutions of the Oblate Congregation and observed them in his life.

Fr. Andrew Charvet died on the 3^rd of February 1988, after a prolonged illness caused by a malignant tumor in his brain.

At A Glance Rev. Fr. Andrew Charvet, OMI

·         Birth               …………………..     4^th February 1922

·         Novitiate        …...….…………..                            1941

·         Final Vows    …..…………….....                            1945

·         Ordination    ...............................                            1948

·         SriLanka       ...………………....             1947 ---- 1967

·         Malaysia       .…………..............             1967 ---- 1978

·         Bangladesh   .………………......             1978 ---- 1988

·         Death             ……………………    3^rd February 1988