Louis-Joseph-Napoléon-Paul Bruchési

Infobox Christian leader type = Archbishop name = Louis Joseph Napoléon Paul Bruchési title = Archbishop of Montreal image = Napoléon Bruchési.jpg church = Catholic Church archdiocese = Archdiocese of Montreal term = June 25, 1897 – September 20, 1939 predecessor = Édouard-Charles Fabre successor = Georges Gauthier ordination = December 21, 1878 ordained_by = Raffaele Monaco La Valletta consecration = August 8, 1897 consecrated_by = Louis-Nazaire Bégin with a special dispensation as he was underage.

Bruchési served as secretary to Archbishop Fabre. He taught dogma for four years at the Université Laval in Quebec, served as a parish priest, and from 1878 to 1887 as a professor at the Université Laval à Montréal. In 1887, he became the director of the diocesan magazine, La Semaine religieuse. He established St. John's Union for poor and infirm priests, and erected twenty-three parishes. During his tenure, Saint Joseph's Oratory was founded by Saint André Bessette. In 1904 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliette was erected from Montreal.

Archbishop Bruchési directed the 21st International Eucharistic Congress held in Montreal in 1910. More than a hundred studies on the Blessed Eucharist — in relation to dogma, moral, history, discipline, pious practices, devotions, and associations — were read and discussed. James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, preached at the High Mass on 11 September.

It was Under Bruchési's leadership that in 1919 the University of Montreal became an autonomous institution. He was a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and a contributor to Semaine Religieuse and the Catholic Encyclopedia. In 1919, Bruchési was admitted to Hôtel-Dieu hospital with an unidentified illness. In the face of failing health, on October 18, 1921, auxiliary bishop Msgr. Georges Gauthier was appointed Apostolic Administrator. Archbishop Bruchési died on September 20, 1939, at the age of 84. In all, Paul Bruchési was a priest for over 60 years and a bishop for 40 years.