His Excellency Joseph-Octave Plessis | |
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Archbishop of Quebec | |
![]() Plessis in 1810 | |
Diocese | Quebec |
Installed | January 17, 1806 |
Term ended | December 4, 1825 |
Predecessor | Pierre Denaut |
Successor | Bernard-Claude Panet |
Orders | |
Ordination | March 11, 1786 |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | December 4, 1825 Quebec City, Lower Canada | (aged 62)
Joseph-Octave Plessis (March 3, 1763 – December 4, 1825) was a Canadian Roman Catholic clergyman from Quebec. He was the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec after the diocese was elevated to the status of an archdiocese.[1]
Plessis cultivated a new generation of priests during the difficult period leading up to the Lower Canada Rebellion, including Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland, Narcisse-Charles Fortier, Jean-Baptiste Kelly, Thomas Maguire, and Pierre-Antoine Tabeau.