Reverend Father Jean-Marie Beurel (5 February 1813 – 3 October 1872) was a French Catholic priest and missionary who founded the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, the St Joseph’s Institution and the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus girls' schools in Singapore.

When Bishop Jean-Paul-Hilaire-Michel Courvezy talked of extending the chapel because it was getting too small, Father Beurel suggested that a church be built elsewhere so that the current site could be used for a school for boys.

Of the two architectural plans submitted, the chosen design was by Denis McSwiney, a former clerk to George Drumgoole Coleman.

Cathedral of the Good Shepherd was completed at the cost of 18,355.22 Spanish dollars,[2] and was consecrated by Father Beurel on 6 June 1847, before a crowd of more than 1,500 people.

When he was told that there was already sufficient land given to the church, he bought a house in Victoria Street with his own money of 4,000 francs[5] that George Drumgoole Coleman had built for H. C. Caldwell, Senior Sworn Clerk who later became Registrar of the Court.