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Petrus De Brabandere
Petrus De Brabandere
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Diocese of Bruges
See	St. Salvator's
Appointed	18 May 1894
Predecessor	Johan Joseph Faict
Successor	Gustavus Waffelaert
Previous post(s)	Professor of Canon Law
Orders
Ordination	21 May 1853
Consecration	11 June 1894
Personal details
Born	21 September 1828; Ooigem, West Flanders, United Kingdom of the Netherlands
Died	31 March 1895 (aged 66); Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium
Education	Major Seminary, Bruges
Alma mater	Catholic University of Leuven
Motto	In Te Confido ("I trust in you", Psalm 25)

Pierre or Petrus De Brabandere (1828–1895) was the 21st bishop of Bruges in Belgium.

Life

De Brabandere was born in Ooigem, West Flanders, on 25 September 1828. He enrolled at the Major Seminary, Bruges, on 1 October 1848 and was ordained to the priesthood on 21 May 1853. He went on to study at the Catholic University of Leuven, graduating licentiate of canon law in 1857, after which he spent a year at the Belgian Pontifical College in Rome.^[1]

After returning to Belgium he briefly served in parish ministry in Ypres before being appointed professor of canon law at the seminary in Bruges in 1861. He wrote a manual of canon law that was a standard text for decades.^[1] He became the director of the seminary in 1869, and vicar general to Bishop Faict in 1880.^[1] He became a canon of Bruges Cathedral in 1885, and vicar capitular after Bishop Faict's death in January 1894. He was appointed Faict's successor as bishop of Bruges on 18 May 1894 and was consecrated as bishop on 11 June 1894. He died in Bruges on 31 March 1895, having been bishop for less than a year.^[1]