Joseph Serge Miot

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name=Joseph Miot
dipstyle=The Most Reverend
offstyle=Your Excellency
relstyle=Monsignor
deathstyle=not applicable |

Joseph Serge Miot (born November 23, 1946) is a Haitian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the ninth and current Archbishop of Port-au-Prince.

Biography

Joseph 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 [Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti. [http://www.ijdh.org/articles/article_onedown.htm One Down, 700 To Go] December 2004] .

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

References

External links

* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmiot.html Catholic-Hierarchy]