François Bacqué

François Robert Bacqué (; 2 September 1936 – 9 November 2023) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, fulfilling several assignments as an apostolic nuncio.

Biography François Robert Bacqué was born in Bordeaux, France, on 2 September 1936 and ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Bordeaux on 1 October 1966. He completed a year of pastoral work at the parish of Notre-Dame d'Arcachon.

Bacqué studied in Rome, Paris, and Toulouse, earning degrees in canon law and political science, and entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1969. His early assignments included stints in the papal representatives' offices in China (1967–72), the Netherlands (1972–75), and Chile (1975–78); in Rome at the Secretariat of State and as a member of the Council for Public Affairs of the Church (1978–83); and then at the apostolic nunciatures in Portugal (1981–85) and Scandinavia (1985–88).

Pope John Paul II appointed him titular archbishop of Gradisca and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Sri Lanka on 17 June 1988. and on 27 February 2001 Apostolic Nuncio to the Netherlands. He died in Rome on 9 November, at the age of 87.