Joseph-Roger de Benoist, R.I.P.

Father Patrick Bataille, Provincial Delegate of the sector of France,
informs you of the return to the Lord of Father

Joseph-Roger de Benoist

on Wednesday the 15th of February 2017 at Bry-sur-Marne (France)
at the age of 93, of which 67 years of missionary life
in Senegal, Mali, Benin, Burkina Faso, Rome and France.

Let us pray for him and for his loved ones.

Milestones of Father Joseph-Roger de Benoist’s life.

Father Roger de Benoist was born at Meudon, in the Diocese of Nanterre in France, on the 2nd of August 1923. He began his spiritual year with the Missionaries of Africa on the 27th of September 1942 at Maison-Carrée, took his Missionary Oath on the 29th of June 1949 at Thibar and was ordained to the Priesthood on the 1st of February 1950 at Carthage.