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Letter to Bishop Livinhac in Uganda (12 December 1886)
You will see, moreover, from the ordinance that this is only a change of titles and that basically the provicars are simply your vicars and therefore your subordinates. Father Coulbois, in fact, has been appointed pro-vicar of Upper Congo and Father Ludovic Girault pro-vicar of Unyanyembe, but both remain under the direct jurisdiction of one of the two Apostolic Vicars of Tanganyika and Nyanza, so that the first is the substitute for the pro-vicariate of Upper Congo, and the second for the vicariate of Unyanyembe and that both of you keep, with regard to these territories thus separated into pro-vicariates and on the missionaries who are there, the same essential rights and higher jurisdiction as before.

Letter to Bishop Livinhac in Uganda (12 December 1886)
You probably know already, through the correspondence of the superior of your little Society, that these Fathers used ways contrary to Christian simplicity and loyalty, to drive us out of the Congo and to usurp our missions. They claimed that I had granted them the right to take those of our territories that were suitable for them in southern and northern Upper Congo, as delineated for us by the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide.