Pierre Pigneau de Behaine

Pigneau de Béhaine
The 1787 painting of Pigneau de Behaine by Maupérin is visible at the Paris Foreign Missions Society
Personal
Born2 November 1741
Origny-en-Thiérache, France
Died9 October 1799(1799-10-09) (aged 57)
Thị Nại, Vietnam[1]
ReligionRoman Catholic
Senior posting
Based inVietnam
Consecration24 February 1774 by Bernardo de São Caetano
PredecessorGuillaume Piguel
SuccessorJean Labartette

Pierre Joseph Georges Pigneau (2 November 1741[2] – 9 October 1799), commonly known as Pigneau de Béhaine (French: [piɲo də be.ɛn]), also Pierre Pigneaux, Bá Đa Lộc ("Pedro"[3] 百多祿), Bách Đa Lộc (伯多祿) and Bi Nhu ("Pigneau"[4] 悲柔), was a French Roman Catholic bishop best known for his role in assisting Nguyễn Ánh (later Emperor Gia Long) to establish the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam after the Tây Sơn rebellion.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference thucluc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Baptismal certificate[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Charles Le Gobien and Jean-Baptiste Du Halde. Lettre edifiantes et curieus écrites Des Missions étrangères: Mémoires de la Chine. Lyon: J Venarel, 1819. p. 451
  4. ^ "Một bộ Từ điển Việt-La tinh viết tay vào cuối thế kỷ XVIII vừa sưu tầm được" trong Tạp chí Hán Nôm