Albert Breton

Albert Henri Charles Breton (16 July 1882 – 12 August 1954), born in Saint-Inglevert, was a French clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fukuoka.

[1][2] He was ordained in 1905 and became a priest at La Société des Missions Etrangères,[2] starting his career as a missionary in Japan that year.

[3] In 1910, he was a parish priest at Aomori when the church and his residence was destroyed by a fire and needed to be rebuilt.

[3] He trained nuns acquired from the United States and operated kindergarten, orphanage, and hospice foundations.

[2][4] He was a missionary in Tokyo from 1942 to 1952,[3] during which he expanded mission posts, opened more schools for children, and built new churches.