Théodore-Augustin Forcade

His Excellency, The Most Reverend

Théodore-Augustin Forcade
Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence
Personal details
BornMarch 2, 1816
Versailles, France
DiedSeptember 12, 1885
Aix-en-Provence, France
NationalityFrench

Théodore-Augustin Forcade (1816–1885) was a French Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence from 1873 to 1885.

Biography

Théodore-Augustin Forcade was born on March 2, 1816, in Versailles near Paris.[1]

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Forcade was ordained priest at the Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1839.[1]

He served as the Apostolic Vicar of Japan from 1846 to 1852,[1][2] as the Pro-Prefect Apostolic of Hong Kong from 1847, as the Bishop of Basse Terre from 1853 to 1860, and as the Bishop of Nevers from 1860 to 1873.[1]

He served as the Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence from 1873 to 1885.[1]

He died on September 12, 1885, in Aix-en-Provence.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Théodore-Augustin Forcade, Bibliothèque nationale de France
  2. ^ Claire Lesegretain, Au Japon, 150e anniversaire de la découverte des « chrétiens cachés », La Croix, March 13, 2015


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