Diocese of Fort-Liberté
Castelli Libertatis
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Fort-Liberté, Haiti
Latin-rite diocese in northeastern Haiti, erected 31 January 1991, with its seat at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Fort-Liberte. Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cap-Haitien. Bishop Quesnel Alphonse, S.M.M., has led the diocese since 2014.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 31 January 1991
- Latin
- Castelli Libertatis
- Annuario code
- 001001433
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 331,200
- Population
- 460,000
- Catholic share
- 72.0%
- Priests
- 71
- Catholics per priest
- 4,665
- Extent
- 1,200 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 276
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Quesnel Alphonse, S.M.M.
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 St. Joseph, Fort-Liberte stands in Fort-Liberté, 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 HincheHinche
- Diocese of Les GonaïvesLes Gonaïves
- Diocese of Port-de-PaixPort-de-Paix
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cap-Haïtien, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort-Liberté (French: Diocèse catholique romain de Fort-Liberté; Latin: Romano-Catholicae Dioecesis Fort-Liberté) was erected on 31 January 1991. On 25 October 2014, Pope Francis named Quesnel Alphonse, S.M.M. its bishop.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, 87 rue Sténio Vincent, HT-2110 Fort-Liberté, Cap-Haïtien, Haïti
- Telephone
- 3757-6506; 3359-0287
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery 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.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].