Louis Le Hunsec

Louis Le Hunsec, C.S.Sp. (6 January 1878 – 25 December 1954) was a French missionary bishop who served as Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit from 1926 to 1950. He spent most of his earlier career as a missionary in Senegal from 1903 to 1919.

Biography Louis Le Hunsec was born in Ploemeur, Brittany, France, the son of Louis Pierre Le Hunsec et his wife Marie-Thérèse Le Gouhir, who were bakers. He attended the minor seminary of Sainte-Anne d'Auray. In October 1897 he joined the Congregation of the Holy Spirit in Orlu and then earned a diploma in philosophy and a licentiate in theology in Rome. He was ordained a priest on 21 September 1901 and took his final vows on 2 July 1902.

He taught philosophy in the seminary in Chevilly for a year and then received permission to work as a missionary in Senegal, where he worked until 1919. (He spent April to November 1910 in France.)

On 23 April 1920, Pope Benedict XV appointed him titular bishop of Europus and Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia.

He received his episcopal consecration in Paris on 30 May 1920 from Bishop Alexandre-Louis-Victor-Aimé Le Roy, Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers,

He resigned as superior general in July 1950. In retirement he continued to live in the motherhouse of the Holy Ghost Fathers in Paris and he died there on 25 December 1954 at the age of 76.