Frédéric-Louis Colin

Frédéric-Louis Colin (1835 in Bourges, France – 27 November 1902, in Montreal) was a French-Canadian Sulpician priest.

After pursuing a course of scientific studies, he entered the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice at Paris, where he was ordained priest in 1859.

Transferred to Canada in 1862, he at first took up parochial work; later he became successively professor of theology and director of the higher seminary at Montreal.

With Ferdinand Brunetière he advocated the erection of a chair of French literature to be occupied by a lecturer from France, and he himself defrayed the costs.

Many of his sermons were printed; among them are one to the papal zouaves returning from Rome (1871), and a funeral oration on Ignace Bourget (1885).