Pierre Denaut

Pierre Denaut
Diocese Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec
Installed 1797
Term ended 1806

Pierre Denaut (20 July 1743 – 17 January 1806) was the tenth bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec and the last before it became an Archdiocese. He served as bishop from 1797 to 1806.[1]

He was appointed vicar general in 1790 and coadjutor in 1794. Bishop Hubert resigned in 1797 and Denaut, with Joseph-Octave Plessis now as coadjutor, took charge of the diocese.

Notes

  1. ↑ Lindsay 1913.

References

  • Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
  •  Lionel Lindsay (1913). "Pierre Denaut". In Herbermann, Charles. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  •  Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Denaut, Peter". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
Religious titles
Preceded by
Jean-François Hubert		 Bishop of Quebec
1797–1806		 Succeeded by
Joseph-Octave Plessis, Archbishop of Quebec


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