Serge de Beaurecueil

Serge Emmanuel Marie de Laugier de Beaurecueil (28 August 1917 – 2 March 2005) was a French Dominican friar, Islamicist, and missionary in Afghanistan. He was a founding member of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies and a scholar of Abdullah Ansari, an eleventh century Afghan Sufi saint. As a missionary in Afghanistan, he cared for poor children and orphans at his home in Kabul until being forced into exile during the Soviet–Afghan War.

From 1963 to 1983, he served as the only Catholic priest in Afghanistan. Provided by Wikipedia