Alexandre Cardot

The Right Reverend

Alexandre Cardot

MEP
Vicar Apostolic of Southern Burma
Installed19 March 1894
Term ended18 October 1925
PredecessorPaul Ambroise Bigandet
SuccessorFélix-Donatien Perroy
Orders
Ordination20 September 1879 as priest
Consecration24 June 1893
by Paul Ambroise Bigandet
Personal details
Born10 January 1857
Fresse, France
Died18 October 1925 (aged 68)
Moulmein, Burma
DenominationRoman Catholic

Alexandre Cardot MEP (10 January 1857 – 18 October 1925) was a French Catholic missionary and bishop who served as Vicar Apostolic of Southern Burma from 1894 to 1925.

Biography

Cardot was born on 10 January 1857 in Fresse, France. He joined the Société des Missions Etrangères and was ordained priest at the Foreign Missions church in Paris in 1879.[1]

Cardot was sent as a missionary to Burma and arrived in 1879. On 21 March 1893, he was appointed coadjutor to Bishop Bigandet and titular Bishop of Limyra, and on 24 June 1893 he was consecrated Bishop by Bishop Bigandet in Rangoon. On the death of Bishop Bigandet on 19 March 1894,[2] he succeeded to the vicariate as Vicar Apostolic of Southern Burma (the Archdiocese of Yangon since 1991).[1][3][4]

Cardot was responsible for the completion of St. Mary's Cathedral, Rangoon on the site chosen by Bishop Bigandet. Cardot commissioned Dutch architect, Joseph Cuypers to design the cathedral and construction was supervised in Rangoon by Fr Janzen whom Cardot had met on a visit to France. The foundation stone was laid in 1899, and construction was completed in 1909. The cathedral was consecrated by Cardot on 22 November 1909.[5][6]

Cardot died on 18 October 1925 at Moulmein, Burma, aged 68.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Bishop Alexandre Cardot [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  2. ^ "Death of Bishop Bigandet". The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser. 27 March 1894. p. 176.
  3. ^ "Yangon (Archdiocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  4. ^ Charles G. Herberman G. Herbermann (1908). The Catholic Encyclopedia An International Work Of Reference On The Constitution Doctrine Discipline And History Of The Catholic Church Volume III. Universal Digital Library. Robert Appleton Company.
  5. ^ "Rangoon's new cathedral". The Straits Times. 23 March 1910. p. 3.
  6. ^ "St Mary's Cathedral – Architectural Guide: Yangon". Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  7. ^ "Social and Personal". The Straits Times. 27 October 1925. p. 8.


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