Roman Catholic priest in France says Archbishop of Port-au-Prince killed in Haiti quake

Archbishop of Port-au-Prince dies in Haiti quake

PARIS — A Roman Catholic priest in France says Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot, the archbishop of Port-au-Prince, has died in the Haiti earthquake.

Father Pierre Le Beller of the Saint Jacques Missionary Center in western France says fellow missionaries in Haiti told him they found Miot’s body in the ruins of the archdiocese office.

Miot was 63. Le Beller spoke to The Associated Press by phone from the Brittany town of Landivisiau.

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.