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New archbishop, auxiliary bishop named for Port-au-Prince

Catholic News Service

On the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Guire Poulard of Les Cayes to be the new archbishop of Port-au-Prince. He succeeds Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, who died in the quake. Archbishop Poulard is pictured in a 2010 photo in Haiti.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Exactly one year after a devastating
earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people,
including the archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Pope Benedict XVI
named a new archbishop and new auxiliary bishop for that
nation’s capital.

On the anniversary of the earthquake Jan. 12, the pope named
Bishop Guire Poulard of Les Cayes, 69, to be the new
archbishop of Port-au-Prince. He succeeds Archbishop Joseph
Serge Miot, who died in the quake.

Ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of
Port-au-Prince in 1972, he studied in Haiti and in France.
Pope John Paul II named him bishop of Jacmel in 1988, and
Pope Benedict transferred him to Les Cayes in 2009.

Also on the Jan. 12 anniversary of the quake, the pope named
Msgr. Glandas Marie Erick Toussaint, director of Caritas
Port-au-Prince, to be an auxiliary bishop for the
archdiocese. The 45-year-old has been pastor of the
Port-au-Prince cathedral parish since 2007 and has been in
charge of archdiocesan Catholic charities since 2008.

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