Max Leroy Mésidor (; born 1962 in
Saint-Marc
Saint-Marc (; ) is a List of communes of Haiti, commune in western Haiti in Artibonite (department), Artibonite departement. Its geographic coordinates are . At the 2015 Census the commune had 266,642 inhabitants. It is one of the biggest cities ...
) is a
Haitian clergyman of the
Catholic Church
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who has served as
Archbishop of Port-au-Prince since 2017.
Biography
Mésidor began seminary in the
Diocese of Les Gonaïves at the College of the Immaculate Conception, after which he entered the national major seminary in
Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince ( ; ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Haiti, most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The me ...
. He was ordained in 1988, after which he went to the
University of Leuven in Belgium to study pastoral theology and catechesis.
In the
Diocese of Les Gonaïves, he held positions at several parishes before becoming the vicar general in 2008.
In 2012, he was named the
Bishop of Fort-Liberté.
On November 1, 2013, he was named as
Coadjutor Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien and became the metropolitan archbishop on November 15, 2014.
On October 7, 2017, he was named the
Archbishop of Port-au-Prince. He was installed on January 6, 2018.
References
External links
Haitian Roman Catholic archbishops
People from Saint-Marc
Living people
1962 births
21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Haiti
Roman Catholic bishops of Fort-Liberté
Roman Catholic archbishops of Cap-Haïtien
Roman Catholic archbishops of Port-au-Prince
Bishops appointed by Pope Francis
Bishops appointed by Pope Benedict XVI
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