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French Catholic archbishop
His Excellency, The Most Reverend
Théodore-Augustin Forcade
Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence
Personal details
Born2 March 1816
Versailles, France
Died12 September 1885 (1885-09-13) (aged 69)
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 2 March 1816 in Versailles, near Paris.

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

He served as the Apostolic Vicar of Japan from 1846 to 1852, 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.

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

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

References

  1. ^ 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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