Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VII, 1951 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Les Cayes, Diocese of

LES CAYES, DIOCESI DI

By Corrado Morin

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LES CAYES, Diocese of. - City in the southwest of the Republic of Haiti (Antilles) and suffragan diocese of Port-au-Prince.

It has a population of 775,000 inhabitants, of whom 750,000 are Catholics, distributed in 35 parishes, with 54 diocesan priests and 40 regulars, a seminary, 13 male religious communities and 26 female ones (1949). The diocese was erected on 3 Oct. 1861 following the Concordat of 2 March 1860 between Pius IX and the Republic of Haiti, but the first bishop, Msgr. J. M. A. Morice, was not installed until 4 March 1893.

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BIBL.: Pio IX, Acta, I, Rome 1854, pp. 308-24; L. Bonnaud, L'Apostolat en Haïti, Priziae 1938; M. Chatté, s. v. in Cath. Enc., III, p. 469, Suppl. p. 169.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), col. 1198.

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Morin, Corrado. “Les Cayes, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 1198. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/les-cayes-diocesi-di.

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Morin, Corrado. “Les Cayes, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1198. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/les-cayes-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Morin, Corrado},
  title     = {Les Cayes, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VII},
  pages     = {1198},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/les-cayes-diocesi-di}
}

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