PORTO PACE (Port-de-Paix), DIOCESE OF
City and diocese of the Republic of Haiti, suffragan
of the archdiocese of Port-au-Prince, capital of the de-
partment of Nord-Ouest.
It has an area of 3,600 sq. km. with a population
of 180,000 inhabitants, of whom 160,000 are Catholics distributed in 49
churches and 10 parishes, served by 24 secular priests;
it has 1 male religious community and 7 female ones, 1 in-
stitute of male education and 5 of female education (Ann. Pont.,
1952, p. 326).
The diocese was created on 3 Oct. 1861 by Pope Pius IX;
but the erection took place only in 1928.
BIBL.: ann., Port-de-Paix, in Enc. Eur. Am., XLVI, p. 610.
Enrico Josi