Aimé-Victor-François Guilbert (15 November 1812 – 16 August 1889) was a French Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Gap from 1867 to 1879, Bishop of Amiens from 1879 to 1883, and as Archbishop of Bordeaux from 1879 until his death.
[1] He was appointed Bishop of Gap on 20 September 1867 and received his episcopal consecration from François-Augustine Delamare, Archbishop of Auch, on 10 November.
[2] Pope Leo XIII confirmed his appointment as Bishop of Amiens on 22 September 1879[1] and then as Archbishop of Bordeaux on 9 August 1883.
There he continued his attempts to reconcile the Church to the French Republic and opposed Catholic monarchists, publishing his arguments in 1886 as La démocratie et son avenir social et religieux.
[4] He had not visited Rome to receive his red biretta and be assigned his titular church.