Théodore-Augustin Forcade (1816–1885) was a

French Catholic The Catholic Church in France, Gallican Church, or French Catholic Church, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome. Established in the 2nd century in unbroken communion with the bishop of Rome, it was sometim ...

prelate who served as

Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence The Archdiocese of Aix-en-Provence and Arles (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Aquensis in Gallia et Arelatensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse d'Aix-en-Provence et Arles''; Occitan Provençal: ''Archidiocèsi de Ais de Provença e Arle'' or ''Archidioucèsi ...

from 1873 to 1885.

Biography

Théodore-Augustin Forcade was born on 2 March 1816 in

Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, in the Yvelines, Yvelines Department of Île-de-France, Île-de-France region in Franc ...

, near Paris.Théodore-Augustin Forcade

Bibliothèque nationale de France The (; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including bo ...

Forcade was ordained priest at the

Paris Foreign Missions Society The Society of Foreign Missions of Paris (, , MEP) is a Catholic Missionary order, missionary organization. It is not a religious institute, but an organization of secular clergy, secular priests and Laity, lay persons dedicated to missionary wo ...

in 1839. He served as the Apostolic Vicar of Japan from 1846 to 1852,Claire Lesegretain
Au Japon, 150e anniversaire de la découverte des « chrétiens cachés »
'' La Croix'', March 13, 2015 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 Nevers ( , ; , later ''Nevirnum'' and ''Nebirnum'') is a city and the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Nièvre Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in central France. It was the pr ...

from 1860 to 1873. He served as the

from 1873 to 1885. He died on 12 September 1885 in Aix-en-Provence.

References

1816 births 1885 deaths Clergy from Versailles Clergy from Aix-en-Provence French Roman Catholic missionaries 19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France Roman Catholic bishops of Basse-Terre {{Caribbean-RC-bishop-stub