Michel-Édouard Méthot (28 July 1826 – 6 February 1892) was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic churchman, educator, and early rector of Université Laval.

At the seminary he was a successful student, forming friendships with French priests Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg and Pierre-Henri Bouchy, and entered the Grand Séminaire in 1846.

His teaching and supervising duty at the Petit Séminaire, traditionally given to theological students, left him little time to study (only an hour a day, he confessed to his uncle).

However he and Hamel served during troubled times, having to react to both attacks from freemason-fearing elements in the clergy who saw the presence of freemason at Laval as worrying, and to the struggle of the Montreal ultramontanes under the leadership of Ignace Bourget seeking from Rome the establishment of an independent university in the city.

He was made a domestic prelate by Pope Leo XIII in 1886, but was forced to retire from his administrative positions the next year due to illness.