Jacques-Léonard Pérocheau

Jacques-Léonard Pérocheau, M.E.P. (Chinese name: ; 1787–1861) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Vicar Apostolic of Northwestern Szechwan (1856–1861), Vicar Apostolic of Se-Ciuen (1838–1856), and Titular Bishop of Maxula Prates (1817–1861).

Biography Jacques-Léonard Pérocheau was born in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France on 6 Jan 1787 and ordained a priest in the La Société des Missions Etrangères in 1812. On 3 Oct 1817, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Pius VII as Titular Bishop of Maxula Prates and Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Se-Ciuen. On 1 Feb 1818, he was consecrated bishop by François de Bovet, Archbishop of Toulouse, with Jean-Claude Leblanc de Beaulieu, Archbishop of Arles, and William Poynter, Titular Bishop of Alias, serving as co-consecrators. On 11 Jul 1838, he succeeded to the bishopric. On 4 Apr 1856, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Pius IX as Vicar Apostolic of Northwestern Szechwan. He served as Vicar Apostolic of Northwestern Szechwan until his death on 6 May 1861.

Episcopal succession While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of: Giacomo Luigi Fontana, Titular Bishop of Sinitis and Vicar Apostolic of Se-Ciuen (1820); Joseph Ponsot, Titular Bishop of Philomelium and Vicar Apostolic of Yünnan (1843); Eugène-Jean-Claude-Joseph Desflèches, Titular Bishop of Sinitis and Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Se-Ciuen (1844); and Annet-Théophile Pinchon, Titular Bishop of Polemonium and Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Northwestern Szechwan (1859).