MUTEL, GUSTAVE-CHARLES-MARIE. — Born on 8 March 1854 at Blumeray, in the diocese of Langres, and died at Seoul on 23 January 1933. On 11 October 1873 he entered the Seminary of the Foreign Missions of Paris and, having been ordained a priest on 24 February 1877, departed on 5 April of the same year for Korea, then subjected to violent persecution.
After several attempts, he succeeded in entering the country on 12 November 1880 and reaching Seoul, where he lived in hiding for five years. In 1885 he was recalled to Paris, and on 2 September was appointed titular bishop of Milo and apostolic vicar of Korea. During the 41 years of his episcopate, the number of Christians increased by 100,000 from 1890 to 1910, when the vicariate was divided in two and M. became apostolic vicar of Seoul. On 11 January 1926 Pius IX appointed him archbishop of Raziaria and assistant at the Pontifical Throne. He knew the Korean language and Chinese literature perfectly.