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Roman Catholic Diocese of Cayenne

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Parishes
  
26

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Area
  
1,780 km²

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Pope
  
Francis

Country
  
French Guiana

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2006) 200,000 150,000 (75%)

Cathedral
  
St Saviour's Cathedral, Cayenne

Bishop
  
Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Fort-de-France–Saint-Pierre

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Gilbert Marie Michel Méranville

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cayenne (Latin: Dioecesis Caiennensis; French: Diocèse de Cayenne) (erected 1651, as the Prefecture Apostolic of French Guiana-Cayenne) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Fort-de-France. It was elevated on to the Vicariate Apostolic of French Guiana-Cayenne on 10 January 1933 and to the Diocese of Cayenne on 29 February 1956. The seat of the bishop is in Cayenne Cathedral.

Ordinaries

  • Giustino Fabre (1923–1924)
  • Leone Delaval, C.S.Sp. (1925–1932)
  • Pierre-Marie Gourtay, C.S.Sp. (1933–1944)
  • Alfred Aimé Léon Marie, C.S.Sp. (1945–1973)
  • François-Marie Morvan, C.S.Sp. (1973–1998)
  • Louis Albert Joseph Roger Sankalé (1998–2004)
  • Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont (2004 – )

    • See also:List of Roman Catholic dioceses in South America

    References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Cayenne Wikipedia
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