Ordained to the priesthood in 1954, he was named archbishop in 1966 and retired in 2008.[1]
Ligondé was a close ally of President Jean-Claude Duvalier and the uncle of his wife Michèle Bennett.[2] He presided over their "opulent cathedral wedding" in 1980 which was broadcast live to the nation.[3]
In January 1991, Ligondé reportedly "fled into the night clad only in undershorts" when mobs attacked the Port-au-Prince Cathedral during a coup attempt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He had previously been a critic of Aristide, comparing the government to a Bolshevik dictatorship. This statement was "seen as giving the green light for the coup". Ligondé and other church leaders subsequently went into hiding.[4]
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