Paul Ambroise Bigandet

Bishop
Apostolic Delegate

Paul Ambroise Bigandet

ChurchCatholic Church
SeeRamatha (Titular See)
Ava and Pegu (as Apostolic Delegate)
Appointed1856 (as Apostolic Delegate)
1856 (as Coadjutor Bishop)
Installed1856
Term ended1894
Previous post(s)Professor at a seminary (prior to 1836)
Orders
Ordination1837-02-08
by Bishop Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Forbin-Janson, Bishop of Nancy-Toul
Consecration1856-03-30
RankBishop
Personal details
Born(1813-08-13)August 13, 1813
DiedMarch 19, 1894(1894-03-19) (aged 80)
Rangoon, British Burma
NationalityFrench
DenominationCatholic
OccupationMissionary
EducationTheology

Paul Ambroise Bigandet MEP (13 August 1813 – 19 March 1894) was a French Catholic missionary who served as Bishop of Lower Burma from 1856 to 1894.