Théodore-Augustin Forcade | |
Birth Date: | March 2, 1816 |
Birth Place: | Versailles, France |
Death Date: | September 12, 1885 |
Death Place: | Aix-en-Provence, France |
Nationality: | French |
Occupation: | Archbishop |
Théodore-Augustin Forcade (1816 - 1885) was a French Roman Catholic archbishop.
Théodore-Augustin Forcade was born on March 2, 1816, in Versailles near Paris.[1]
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]