François-Jean-Marie Laouënan (19 November 1868 – 29 September 1892) was a member of Paris Foreign Missions Society and was the archbishop of Archdiocese of Pondicherry.

On 24 July 1868 he was appointed to succeed Bishop Joseph-Isidore Godelle as Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry.

(Brahmanism and its relation to Judaism and Christianity) which he published in 1885 at the Académie française at prix Bordin.

After returning to Pondicherry, he directed the Seminary of the mission, and in 1866, resumed his former duties as the principal of colonial college.

on 5 June 1868, Pope Pius IX appointed him as the Titular Bishop of Flaviopolis and Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry.

He took a very active part in the negotiations which preceded the Concordat, signed on 23 June 1886 between Rome and Portugal, for the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in the India.

On this occasion, he was called to Rome by Pope Leo XIII in 1884; He proposed solutions with such a skill and wisdom that in 1886 Pope Leo XIII made him a Roman count and Assistant at the Pontifical Throne.

The thorny issue ended with the establishment of the hierarchy in India, which was decreed by the bull Humanae salutis,[5] dated 1 September 1886.

On 25 November by the brief Apostolatus officium, Pope transferred the incumbent Bishops of titular sees in India to respective churches.