Roman Catholic Diocese of Les Cayes

Diocese of Les Cayes Dioecesis Caiesensis Dyosèz nan Les Cayes
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de l’Assomption
Location
Country	Haiti
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Port-au-Prince
Metropolitan	Jérémie
Statistics
Area	4,649 km2 (1,795 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2001) 1,400,000 933,000 (66.6%)
Parishes	43
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	3 October 1861 (162 years ago)
Cathedral	Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Chibly Cardinal Langlois
Bishops emeritus	Jean Alix Verrier

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

History

The ecclesiastical province of Port-au-Prince (the archdiocese and the four suffragan dioceses of Cap Haïtien, Les Gonaïves, 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.

Bishops

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 Langlois (since 2011); elevated to Cardinal in 2014

Coadjutor bishops

• François-Joseph Person (1937–1941)
• Jean Alix Verrier (1985–1988)

Auxiliary bishop

• Charles-Edouard Peters, S.M.M. (1966–1972), appointed Bishop of Jérémie

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Joseph Willy Romélus, appointed Bishop of Jérémie in 1977
• Joseph Gontrand Décoste (priest here, 1994–1998), appointed Bishop of Jérémie in 2009

Territorial losses

Year	Along with	To form
1972		Diocese of Jérémie

External links

• "Diocese of Les Cayes". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
• GCatholic.org page for Diocese of Les Cayes

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Cayes". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.