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Roman Catholic Diocese of Les Cayes

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Metropolitan
  
Jérémie

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
4,649 km²

Bishop
  
Chibly Langlois

Parishes
  
43

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Country
  
Haiti

Emeritus bishop
  
Jean Alix Verrier

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2001) 1,400,000 933,000 (66.6%)

Established
  
3 October 1861 (155 years ago)

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

Ecclesiastical provinces
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince, Jérémie

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Les Cayes, erected 3 October 1861, is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince.

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History

The ecclesiastical province of Port-au-Prince (the archdiocese and the four suffragan dioceses of Cap Haïtien, Gonaives, Les Cayes, and Port-de-Paix) dates from the reorganization following upon the Concordat of 1860 between Pope Pius IX and the Republic of Haiti.

Ordinaries

  • Jean-Marie-Alexandre Morice (1893–1914)
  • Ignace-Marie Le Ruzic (1916–1919)
  • Jules-Victor-Marie Pichon (1919–1941)
  • François-Joseph Person (1941-1941)
  • Jean Louis Collignan, O.M.I. (1942–1966)
  • Jean-Jacques Claudius Angénor (1966–1988)
  • Jean Alix Verrier (1988–2009)
  • Guire Poulard (2009–2011); named Archbishop of Port-au-Prince
  • Chibly Cardinal Langlois (since 2011)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Les Cayes Wikipedia
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