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Archbishop Max Leroy Mésidor

Archbishop of Port-au-Prince

Stemma
Natus
Jan 6, 1962 Saint-Marc, Haiti
Natio
Haiti
Sacerdos ordinatus
Jan 10, 1988 Les Gonaïves, Haiti
Episcopus ordinatus
Jul 28, 2012 Fort-Liberté, Haiti
Nominatus
Jan 6, 2018
Consecrator principalis
Bernardito Cleopas Auza
Conconsecratores
Chibly Langlois Yves-Marie Péan C.S.C.

Msgr. Max Leroy Mésidor was born on 6 January 1962 in Saint-Marc, in the diocese of Les Gonaïves. After his secondary studies in the “Collège de l’Immaculée Conception” in the city of Les Gonaïves, he entered the national major seminary of Port-au-Prince, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in sacred theology in 1987. From September 1998 to September 2000, he studied pastoral theology and catechesis at the University of Leuven, Belgium, obtaining a licentiate. He was ordained a priest on 10 January 1988 for the diocese of Les Gonaïves. He has held the following ministerial offices: parish vicar in Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite (1988-1989); administrator of the same parish (1989-1992); vicar of the Cathedral of Les Gonaïves (1992-1993); pastor of the parish of the Visitation (1993-1998); pastor of the parish of Saint-Marc (2000-2008); vicar general of the diocese and pastor of the Cathedral of Les Gonaïves (2008-2012). Msgr. Mésidor was also head of the “Pastor Bonus” diocesan pastoral centre and chaired the diocesan commissions for catechesis and for the liturgy. He was appointed as bishop of Fort-Liberté on 9 June 2012, and received episcopal ordination the following 28 July. He was promoted as coadjutor archbishop for the metropolitan see of Cap-Haïtien on 1 November 2013 and became metropolitan archbishop of the same see on 15 November 2014.