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Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince

Portus Principis

Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Latin-rite metropolitan archdiocese seated in the Haitian capital, erected as a metropolitan see on 3 October 1861 under the Concordat of 1860. Its seat, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, was destroyed in the 12 January 2010 earthquake. Its suffragans are Jacmel, Jeremie, Anse-a-Veau et Miragoane, and Les Cayes.

The see

Rank
Metropolitan see
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
3 October 1861
Latin
Portus Principis
Annuario code
001002632

The see in figures

Catholics
3,056,000
Population
4,244,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
72.0%
Priests
299
Catholics per priest
10,221
Extent
5,500 km²
Catholics per km²
556

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

Archbishop
Max Leroy Mesidor
Born
6 January 1962
Birthplace
Saint-Marc

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 Our Lady of the Assumption, Port-au-Prince stands in Port-au-Prince, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Port-au-Prince

This see is the metropolitan of its province.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

A metropolitan archdiocese, the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince (Latin: Archidioecesis Portus Principis; French: Archidiocèse de Port-au-Prince; Haitian Creole: Achidyosèz Pòtoprens) oversees the suffragan dioceses of Jacmel, Jérémie, Anse-à-Veau and Miragoâne and Les Cayes. Approximately 668,700 Catholics live within it, and since its inception in 1861 the clergy have been primarily French.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.