Jorge Hourton

Jorge María Hourton Poisson (May 27, 1926 – December 5, 2011) was the Roman Catholic titular bishop of Materiana and, in 1992–2001, the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Temuco, Chile.^[1]

Jorge Hourton in 2008

Born in France, he acquired Chilean nationality and studied at the Seminary of Santiago and the Theology school of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.^[2] Being ordained to the priesthood in 1949, Hourton Poisson became a bishop in 1969 retiring in 2001.^[3]