Joseph-Marie-Pélagie Havard (2 November 1790 – 7 July 1838) was a 19th-century Catholic bishop who worked as a missionary in Vietnam.
Havard was born in 1790 in Thourie, in the ancient Province of Brittany, during the final days of the Kingdom of France.
Some time about 1815, Havard entered the seminary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society to give his service to the Church in Asia.
[1] Havard oversaw the Catholic Church in Vietnam during a time of major persecution under the Emperor Minh Mang.
When the news did reach Hanoi, he was immediately put to death by order of the emperor .