Petrus De Brabandere

Pierre or Petrus De Brabandere (1828–1895) was the 21st bishop of Bruges in Belgium.

He enrolled at the Major Seminary, Bruges, on 1 October 1848 and was ordained to the priesthood on 21 May 1853.

He went on to study at the Catholic University of Leuven, graduating licentiate of canon law in 1857, after which he spent a year at the Belgian Pontifical College in Rome.

[1] After returning to Belgium he briefly served in parish ministry in Ypres before being appointed professor of canon law at the seminary in Bruges in 1861.

[1] He became a canon of Bruges Cathedral in 1885, and vicar capitular after Bishop Faict's death in January 1894.