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

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. Signay was ordained in 1802 by Bishop Pierre Denaut and began a number of years of parish duties. In 1814, he was appointed parish priest of Quebec by Archbishop

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. 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 Pierre-Flavien Turgeon (November 13, 1787, in Quebec City, Quebec – August 25, 1867, in Quebec City) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Quebec for 17 years. Life Pierre-Flavien Turgeon was born in Québec on November 13 ...

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