Michel d'Herbigny, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michel d'Herbigny

Catholic bishop

Date of Birth: 08-May-1880

Place of Birth: Lille, Hauts-de-France, France

Date of Death: 23-Dec-1957

Profession: Catholic priest, university teacher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Michel-Joseph Bourguignon d'Herbigny (French: [d??bi?i]; 8 May 1880 – 23 December 1957) was a French Jesuit scholar and Roman Catholic bishop.
He was president of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, and of the Pontifical Commission for Russia.
He was secretly consecrated a bishop and was instrumental in a failed attempt to establish a clandestine hierarchy for the Catholic Church in the Soviet Union during the religious persecutions of the 1920s.