JOLIVET, CHARLES-CONSTANT. — Born on 9 Jan. 1826 at Pont-l'Abbé, diocese of Quimper; died on 15 Oct. 1903 at Durban. In 1848 he became an Oblate of Mary Immaculate.
Until 1867 he was in England as a missionary and curate. In 1867 he became Assistant General of the Congregation. In 1874 he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Natal, which then comprised all of southern Africa outside the two vicariates of the Cape of Good Hope and the prelature of Mozambique. In 1886 the Orange Free State with the Austouland and the Transvaal were detached from II. Bp. J. organized the ministry among the whites, called the Trappists in 1882 (now the Mariannhill Missionaries) to work among the blacks, and began the mission among the Indians.
He worked successfully in the fields of charity and education, and invited the Sisters of the Holy Cross of Menzingen, the Dominicans who founded their own congregations at Oakford and Newcastle, and the Augustinian Sisters of Pont-l'Abbé.