Louis-August Chorin

Louis August Chorin MEP (17 July 1888 – 29 April 1965) was a French Roman Catholic missionary and bishop who served as Vicar Apostolic of Bangkok from 1947 to 1965.

Biography Chorin was born on 16 July 1888 in Alençon. He was raised by his mother alone who was a lady-in-waiting for the Countess of Semallé. After completing his education at La Chapelle Montligeon, Orne, he entered the minor seminary at Séez. In 1908, he entered the Paris Foreign Missions Society seminary, and was ordained a priest on 29 September 1912.

In November 1912, he was sent as a missionary to Siam and arrived at Bangkok on 31 December. He was assigned to work in Bang Nok Khwaek as vicar by Bishop Perros where he learned Chinese. Later, he was recalled to Bangkok as director of the printing press at the Church of Assumption, and during the First World War, he published the magazine "Sangha Samphan". In 1925, he was appointed procurator of the Bangkok Mission, and in 1932 built a four-storey building in Bangkok to replace the old missionary.

Having been ill for some time, Chorin died on 29 April 1965 in Bangkok, aged 76.