Joseph-Marie-Pélagie Havard
Joseph-Marie-Pélagie Havard (2 November 1790 – 7 July 1838) was a 19th-century
Catholic bishop
who worked as a missionary in Vietnam.
Life
Havard was born in 1790 in Thourie, in the ancient Province of Brittany, during the final days of the Kingdom of France.[1] Nothing is recorded of his upbringing or how he fared during the turmoil of the French Revolution and the First French Empire.
Some time about 1815, Havard entered the seminary of the
Apostolic Vicar of the Vicariate Apostolic of Western Tonkin since 1787.[1]
Havard was appointed Longer's
Castoria. He automatically succeeded to the office upon Longer's death on 8 February 1831.[1]
Havard oversaw the Catholic Church in Vietnam during a time of major persecution under the Emperor
Minh Mang. He had expected to be succeeded as Vicar Apostolic by Pierre Dumoulin-Borie, M.E.P., who was appointed as his coadjutor in 1836. But Dumoulin-Borie was arrested in 1838, before the news had reached the missions, which destroyed this plan. When the news did reach Hanoi, he was immediately put to death by order of the emperor .[2]
Havard died in Hanoi in 1838, being succeeded by Pierre-André Retord, M.E.P.
References
- ^ a b c "Bishop Joseph-Marie-Pélagie Havard, M.E.P." Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
- ^ "Hl. Pierre Dumoulin-Borgie". Das Portal zur katolischen Geisteswelt (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2012.