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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.^[1]

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

References

^ Wikisource:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Cayes

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.