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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port au Prince

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Parishes
  
89

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Country
  
Haiti

Emeritus bishop
  
Joseph Lafontant

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
5,500 km²

Archbishop
  
Guire Poulard

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince

Ecclesiastical province
  
Province of Port-au-Prince

Metropolitan
  
Port-au-Prince, Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, Ouest

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2013) 4,244,000 3,056,000 (72%)

Address
  
6 Rue St Laurent, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Cathedral
  
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, Port-au-Prince

Similar
  
Notre Dame Cathedral, Embassy of Canada, Le Plaza Hotel, Chatelain Tours

The Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince (erected 3 October 1861) is a metropolitan archdiocese, responsible for the suffragan dioceses of Jacmel, Jérémie, Anse-à-Veau and Miragoâne and Les Cayes.

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The archdiocese was a vacant see following the death of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, who was one of the many casualties of the 12 January 2010 earthquake when the Archdiocesan Chancery building collapsed. The archdiocese's chancellor was also reportedly killed.

On the one-year anniversary of the disaster, Pope Benedict XVI named Guire Poulard - who had been the Bishop of Les Cayes - as the new Archbishop of Port-au-Prince. At the same time he named Glandas Marie Erick Toussaint as the auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese.

Ordinaries

  1. Martial-Guillaume-Marie Testard du Cosquer (7 September 1863 – 27 July 1869)
  2. Alexis-Jean-Marie Guilloux (27 June 1870 – 24 October 1885)
  3. Constant-Mathurin Hillion (10 June 1886 – 21 February 1890)
  4. Cardinal Giulio Tonti (1 October 1894 – 23 August 1902)
  5. Julien-Jean-Guillaume Conan (16 September 1903 – 5 December 1930)
  6. Joseph-Marie Le Gouaze (5 December 1930 – 24 June 1955)
  7. François-Marie-Joseph Poirier (3 July 1955 – 18 August 1966)
  8. François-Wolff Ligondé (20 August 1966 – 1 March 2008)
  9. Joseph Serge Miot (1 March 2008 – 12 January 2010)
  10. Guire Poulard (12 January 2011 – )

Auxiliary bishops

  • Glandas Marie Erick Toussaint (since 12 January 2011)
  • Sylvain Duncage, SDB (since 4 June 2016)

    • Former auxiliary bishops

  • Léon Bélouino (20 August 1880 – 18 January 1882)
  • François-Marie Kersuzan (9 August 1883 – 13 August 1886)
  • Pierre-Marie Gentet (10 December 1895 – 6 March 1896)
  • Jules-Victor-Marie Pichon (Coadjutor: 13 January 1905 – 18 December 1919)
  • Rémy Augustin, SMM (8 April 1953 – 20 August 1966)
  • Jean-Baptiste Décoste (20 August 1966 – 20 April 1972)
  • Louis Nerval Kébreau, SDB (25 November 1986 – 30 June 1998)
  • Joseph Lafontant (25 November 1986 – 27 July 2013)
  • Pierre-André Dumas (10 December 2002 – 13 July 2008)
  • Simon-Pierre Saint-Hillien, CSC (10 December 2002 – 6 August 2009)
  • Quesnel Alphonse, SMM (10 November 2012 – 25 October 2014)

    • Bishops who were priests of the archdiocese

  • Launay Saturné (priest: 10 March 1991 – 28 April 2010; appointed Bishop of Jacmel)
  • Jean Désinord (priest: 13 November 1994 – 4 April 2016; appointed Bishop of Hinche)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince Wikipedia
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