Thomas Spreiter

Thomas (Franz Xavier) Spreiter, OSB (28 December 1865 – 27 January 1944) was a German missionary, one of the first of the Missionary Benedictines, who worked in German East Africa and later South Africa. He was the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam in German East Africa, and bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Natal and of the Vicariate of Eshowe.

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Thomas Spreiter
Birth dateDecember 28, 1865
Birth place
Germany , Regensburg
Nationality
Germany
Date of deathJanuary 27, 1944
Place of death
South Africa , KwaZulu-Natal , Vryheid
Resting place
Inkamana Abbey

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