Father François Ponchaud, a member of the Paris Foreign Missions (MEP) society who served the Church in Cambodia for 56 years, died on Jan. 17. He was 86.
Ponchaud died in MEP priests’ retirement facility in Lauris, France, where he lived since his return to France in 2021,
He was born as the seventh of a family of 12 children in 1939 in Sallanches (Haute-Savoie). His father, Léon Ponchaud, was a general councilor of Sallanches, involved in the Popular Republican Movement.
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