Diocese of Les Cayes

The Diocese of Les Cayes (Latin: Dioecesis Caiesensis; French: Diocèse des Cayes; Haitian Creole: Dyosèz Okay), erected 3 October 1861, is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince.

Diocese of Les Cayes Dioecesis Caiesensis Diocèse des Cayes Dyosèz Okay
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 (164 years ago)
Cathedral	Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Bishop	Chibly Cardinal Langlois

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.