Joseph Signay, (8 November 1778 – 3 October 1850), was the third archbishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec The Archdiocese of Québec ( la, Archidiœcesis Quebecensis; french: Archidiocèse de Québec) is a Catholic archdiocese in Quebec, Canada. Being the first see in the New World north of Mexico, the Archdiocese of Québec is also the primatial see ...

. Signay was ordained in 1802 by Bishop

Pierre Denaut Pierre Denaut (20 July 1743 – 17 January 1806) was the tenth bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec and the last before it became an Archdiocese. He served as bishop from 1797 to 1806. Life Pierre Denaut was born in Montreal on 20 Jul ...

and began a number of years of parish duties. In 1814, he was appointed parish priest of Quebec by Archbishop

Joseph-Octave Plessis 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. ...

. In 1825, Bernard-Claude Panet became archbishop and selected Signay as his coadjutor. Signay became archbishop in 1833 and he was followed by Pierre-Flavien Turgeon in 1850.

External links

Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
* Roman Catholic archbishops of Quebec 1778 births 1850 deaths 19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Canada Burials at the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec {{Quebec-bio-stub