Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand

Henri-Marie Dubreuil de Pontbriand (c. January 1708 – 8 June 1760) was a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Quebec.

Biography Pontbriand was from a titled family and grew up at the Pontbriand Château (now in Ille-et-Vilaine), France.

He received his classical education at La Flèche from the Jesuits and studied theology with the Sulpicians in Paris. He stayed in Paris and was ordained there in 1731 and received a doctorate from the Sorbonne.

Pontbriand spent some time serving the Bishop of Saint-Malo who made him his vicar general. In 1740, at the suggestion of his maternal uncle, the Comte de La Garaye, he was named bishop of Quebec by Louis XV and this appointment was approved by pope Benedict XIV in March 1741.

Before his departure, he spent some months at the Sulpician seminary in Paris learning about his diocese, as the congregation was active in Montreal. He left for Canada that same year on the Rubis, which landed at Quebec 29 Aug. 1741.

Pontbriand died in 1760.