According to BBC, Archbishop of Port-au-Prince dies in Haiti quake.

 

Joseph Serge Miot (November 23, 1946 – January 12, 2010) was a Haitian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the ninth Archbishop of Port-au-Prince. The order of missionary priests was officially founded in 1951 by the bishop of Gonaives, Haiti. While headquartered in France, it retains a strong presence in Haiti and traces its unofficial missionary activity to 1860.

 

Biography

 

Miot was born in Jérémie, and ordained to the priesthood on July 4, 1975.

 

On July 29, 1997, he was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Port-au-Prince by Pope John Paul II. Miot received his episcopal consecration on the following October 12 from Archbishop Christophe Pierre, with Archbishops François Gayot, SMM, and François-Wolff Ligondé serving as co-consecrators.

 

During his tenure, he denounced the incarceration of Fr. Gérard Jean-Juste by the government of Prime Minister Gérard Latortue.

 

Miot succeeded Ligondé as the ninth Archbishop of Port-au-Prince upon the latter's resignation on March 1, 2008.

 

The archdiocese's offices were destroyed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake on January 12, 2010, and the Archbishop's body was found in the building's ruins.