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Auguste-Léopold Huys (9 July 1871 – 8 October 1938) was a Catholic White Fathers missionary who was Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Upper Congo in the east of today’s Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1909 until his death in 1938.Auguste-Léopold Huys was born on 9 July 1871 in Bruges Belgium.On 21 September 1895 he was ordained a priest of the White Fathers (Society of Missionaries of Africa).On 26 August 1897 Huys arrived at the mission station of Mpala on the west shore of Lake Tanganyika.After a few months he was made director of the catechist school.