Diocese of Port-de-Paix
Portus Pacis
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Port-de-Paix, Haiti
Latin-rite diocese covering Haiti's Nord-Ouest department, erected 3 October 1861. Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cap-Haitien, with its seat at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Port-de-Paix. Bishop Charles Peters Barthelus has led the diocese since 2020.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 October 1861
- Latin
- Portus Pacis
- Annuario code
- 001002635
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 330,000
- Population
- 550,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 60.0%
- Priests
- 52
- Catholics per priest
- 6,346
- Extent
- 4,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 73
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
- Charles Peters Barthelus
- Born
- 14 November 1970
- Birthplace
- Marchand-Dessalines
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 the Immaculate Conception, Port-de-Paix stands in Port-de-Paix, 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 Cap-Haitien
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cap-Haitien.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Cap-HaïtienCap-Haïtien
- Diocese of Fort-LibertéFort-Liberté
- Diocese of HincheHinche
- Diocese of Les GonaïvesLes Gonaïves
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The see of Port-de-Paix dates to 3 October 1861. Known in French as the Diocèse catholique romain de Port-de-Paix and in Latin as Romano-Catholicae Dioecesis Portus-de-Paix, this Roman Catholic diocese belongs, as a suffragan, to the Archdiocese of Cap-Haïtien.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché,5 rue Amiral Killick, B.P. 61, HT-3110 Port-de-Paix, Haïti, W.I.
- Telephone
- 3387-3678; 4025-4514
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.