Alexandre Poncet

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Alexandre Poncet (born in 1884 in Saint-Chamond, Loire) was a French clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wallis et Futuna. He was appointed bishop in 1935. He died in 1973.{{cite web |url=http://catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dwafu.html |title=Diocese of Wallis et Futuna |publisher=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=23 June 2022}}

After ordination as a priest Poncet served as a chaplain to the French community in London for 15 years, then as a seminary professor in Devon.{{cite book |title=Where Nets Were Cast: Christianity in Oceania Since World War II |author=John Garrett |publisher=University of the South Pacific |location=Suva |year=1997 |page=108 }} He was appointed as a priest on Uvea in 1925 for three years, then served on Tongatapu and Niuafoʻou before being made Bishop of Wallis and Futuna in 1935.