Bishop Jacques-Victor-Marius Rouchouse (June 6, 1860 – December 20, 1948) was the first
Roman Catholic Bishop of Chengdu during the
Chinese Republican Era, a post he held from 1946 until his death in 1948.
Biography
Rouchouse was born in the city
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne (; frp, Sant-Etiève; oc, Sant Estève, ) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire department in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Saint-Étienne is the t ...
in eastern France.
He received his ordination on June 30, 1895, as a priest of the
Paris Foreign Missions Society.
[ From 1897 to 1904, he supervised the construction of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at Chengdu.][ On April 11, 1946, he was appointed Bishop of Chengdu, a position he held until his death on December 20, 1948.][ Bishop Rouchouse was succeeded as Bishop of Chengdu by Henri-Marie-Ernest-Désiré Pinault.][
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See also
* Catholic Church in Sichuan
Notes
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in China
1860 births
1948 deaths
People from Saint-Étienne
Roman Catholic missionaries in Sichuan
French Roman Catholic bishops in Asia
Paris Foreign Missions Society bishops
Roman Catholic Diocese of Chengdu
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