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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.[2] 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.[2]