Jacques-Victor-Marius Rouchouse

Jacques-Victor-Marius Rouchouse
Bishop of Chengtu
Church	Roman Catholic
Archdiocese	Chongqing (Chungking)
Diocese	Chengdu (Chengtu)
Installed	April 11, 1946
Term ended	1983
Predecessor	Marie-Julien Dunand (as Apostolic Vicar of Northwestern Szechwan)
Successor	Henri-Marie-Ernest-Désiré Pinault
Orders
Consecration	December 20, 1948
Personal details
Born	(June 6, 1860 Saint-Étienne, France
Died	December 20, 1948 China
Nationality	French
Denomination	Roman Catholicism

Bishop Jacques-Victor-Marius Rouchouse (June 6, 1860 – December 20, 1948) was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Chengdu during the Chinese Republican Era, a post he held from 1946 until his death in 1948.

Biography

Rouchouse was born in the city Saint-Étienne in eastern France.[1] He received his ordination on June 30, 1895, as a priest of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.[1] From 1897 to 1904, he supervised the construction of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at Chengdu.[2] On January 28, 1916, he received the dual appointments of Vicar Apostolic of Northwestern Szechwan and Titular Bishop of Aegeae.[1] On April 11, 1946, he was appointed Bishop of Chengdu, a position he held until his death on December 20, 1948.[1] Bishop Rouchouse was succeeded as Bishop of Chengdu by Henri-Marie-Ernest-Désiré Pinault.[1]

See also

• Catholic Church in Sichuan

Notes

1. "Bishop Jacques-Victor-Marius Rouchouse, M.E.P". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved May 28, 2009.
2. Wang, Anming (October 18, 2020). "中西合璧的代表性建筑——天主教成都教区主教公署" [A representative building of the combination of Chinese and Western architectural styles: the Episcopal See of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chengdu]. thepaper.cn (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved November 20, 2022.