Édouard-Charles Fabre

Édouard-Charles Fabre
Archbishop of Montreal
See	Montreal
Installed	May 11, 1876
Term ended	December 30, 1896
Predecessor	Ignace Bourget
Successor	Paul Bruchési
Other post(s)	Coadjutor Bishop of Montreal
Orders
Ordination	February 23, 1850
Personal details
Born	(1827-02-28)February 28, 1827 Montreal, Lower Canada
Died	December 30, 1896(1896-12-30) (aged 69) Montreal, Quebec
Parents	Édouard-Raymond Fabre

Édouard-Charles Fabre (February 28, 1827 – December 30, 1896) was Archbishop of Montreal in 1886 and of Sherbrooke and Saint-Hyacinthe in 1887.

Fabre was the eldest of 11 children in an important Montreal business family. Despite the efforts of his father, Édouard-Raymond Fabre, to steer him in another direction, he began his study of philosophy in 1844 at the seminary of Saint-Sulpice at Issy-les-Moulineaux after a privileged education in Lower Canada.

In 1846 Fabre finished his studies at Saint-Sulpice, visited Rome and met Pope Pius IX and returned to Montreal. He was ordained in 1850.

In 1876 Fabre became the third bishop of Montreal and, in 1886, Pope Leo XIII made him Archbishop of Montreal, and the following year the dioceses of Sherbrooke and Saint-Hyacinthe.

The parish municipality of Saint-Édouard-de-Fabre, Quebec, was named after him. The Montreal metro station Fabre is also named after him.

References

• Halpenny, Francess G, ed. (1990). "Édouard-Charles Fabre". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XII (1891–1900) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.