François-Wolff Ligondé

François-Wolff Ligondé (January 17, 1928 in Les Cayes – April 8, 2013) was a Haitian Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Port-au-Prince from 1966 to 2008. He was the first Haitian to hold the office.

Ligondé was born in 1928 in Les Cayes. He was ordained to the priesthood on 11 July 1954 by Monsignor Rémy Augustin, the first Haitian-born bishop and auxiliary bishop of Port-au-Prince. He became a professor at the Collège Saint Louis of Jérémie before being sent to study in Fribourg, Switzerland. Ligondé was appointed Archbishop of Port-au-Prince on 20 August 1966. Ligondé's appointment came five days after the signing of a concordat between Haiti and the Holy See which allowed François Duvalier to personally nominate high-ranking Haitian clerics.

Ligondé was the first Haitian-born Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, his predecessors having been white Europeans (mostly Frenchmen). Prior to the concordat, Duvalier had engaged in a lengthy struggle with the Catholic magisterium to "nationalize" the Haitian church and staff its hierarchy with black Haitian clerics. Duvalier expelled Ligondé's immediate predecessor, French-born François Poirier, along with other senior clerics (including Msgr. Augustin), in 1960.

As a result of his patronage by François Duvalier, Ligondé was a close ally of Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, and frequently praised them in his sermons. He presided over Papa Doc's funeral and the opulent wedding of Baby Doc and Michèle Bennett (also Ligondé's niece) in Port-au-Prince Cathedral in 1980, which was broadcast live to the nation.

After the fall of Baby Doc, Ligondé found himself at odds with Salesian priest and emerging politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who characterized Ligondé as a "faithful servant" of the Duvaliers. Although his pastoral role as archbishop ended after this incident, he remained archbishop until his retirement on 1 March 2008.