Diocese of Anse-à-Veau et Miragoâne
Sinuvitullens(sis)-Miragoanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Anse-à-Veau et Miragoâne, Haiti
Latin-rite diocese covering the Nippes department of Haiti, erected 13 July 2008 from the Diocese of Les Cayes. Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince. Its seat is the Cathedral of Saint Anne in Anse-a-Veau, with the Co-Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Miragoane.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 13 July 2008
- Latin
- Sinuvitullens(sis)-Miragoanen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000698
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 222,000
- Population
- 375,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 59.2%
- Priests
- 68
- Catholics per priest
- 3,265
- Extent
- 1,100 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 202
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Pierre-Andre Dumas
- Born
- 26 September 1962
- Birthplace
- Saint-Jean-du-Sud
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Saint Anne, Anse-a-Veau stands in Anse-à-Veau et Miragoâne, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, Miragoane.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Port-au-Prince
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Port-au-PrincePort-au-Prince
- Diocese of JacmelJacmel
- Diocese of JérémieJérémie
- Diocese of Les CayesLes Cayes
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Rue Goin 1, B.P. 32062, Anse-à-Veau, Nippes, HT-7410
- yvoltaire@gmail.com
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.