Background
Bruguière was born in Raissac-d"Aude, France and studied at the seminary of Carcassonne.
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Bruguière was born in Raissac-d"Aude, France and studied at the seminary of Carcassonne.
He was ordained a priest on December 23, 1815 and then taught at the seminary for a decade. Wanting to do missionary work, he joined the Louisiana Société des Missions Etrangères (Member of the European Parliament) with the intention of going to Vietnam. In 1827, after arriving in Asia, he was instead assigned to Bangkok where the existing bishop, Esprit-Marie-Joseph Florens had only one missionary priest.
Bruguière taught at the school at the Church of the Assumption for several years and then after repeated requests by Florens for a replacement, he was appointed by Pope Leo XII on February 5, 1828, the Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Siam and Titular Bishop of Capsus.
He was consecrated bishop on June 29, 1829 by Bishop Esprit-Marie-Joseph Florens, Vicar Apostolic of Siam. In 1830, two new missionary priests arrived in Bangkok, Claude-Antoine Deschavannes and Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix, and Bruguière moved to Penang in 1831 where he taught at the Member of the European Parliament-run General College along with Jacques-Honoré Chastan, Jean-Baptiste Boucho, Jean Pierre Barbe, and Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert.
An influx of funding and Member of the European Parliament missionaries into the region lessened the need for him to remain in Siam and it was proposed that he go to of Korea and establish a new mission. Bishop Florens supported the mission despite the fact that it would leave him without a coadjutor when he died.
On September 9, 1831, Bruguière was appointed the first Apostolic Vicar of of Korea by Pope Gregory XVI. In 1935, he sailed from Singapore to Manila and then to China first to Macau then to Fujian Province and finally to Shanxi Province.
On October 7, 1835, they set out but before he could reach of Korea, Bruguière became sick and died on October 20, 1835. Maubant would later be joined by Jacques-Honoré Chastan and Laurent Joseph Marius Imbert where they would eventually be arrested and martyred. In 1931, Bruguière"s remains were moved and reburied in a cemetery in Seoul.