Diocese of Jacmel
Iacmelien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jacmel, Haiti
Latin-rite diocese covering Haiti's Sud-Est department, erected 25 February 1988 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince. Its seat is the Cathedral of St. James and St. Philip in Jacmel. Bishop Glandas Marie Erick Toussaint was appointed 8 December 2018.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 February 1988
- Latin
- Iacmelien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001706
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 331,667
- Population
- 510,257
- Catholic share
- 65.0%
- Priests
- 52
- Catholics per priest
- 6,378
- Extent
- 2,700 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 123
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
- Glandas Marie Erick Toussaint
- Born
- 19 May 1965
- Birthplace
- Grande Savane
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. James and St. Philip, Jacmel stands in Jacmel, 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 Port-au-Prince
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Port-au-PrincePort-au-Prince
- Diocese of Anse-à-Veau et MiragoâneAnse-à-Veau et Miragoâne
- Diocese of JérémieJérémie
- Diocese of Les CayesLes Cayes
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince, the Diocese of Jacmel (Latin: Dioecesis Iacmeliensis; French: Diocèse de Jacmel; Haitian Creole: Dyosèz Jakmèl) was erected on 25 February 1988. From an initial ten priests the diocese grew to more than fifty by 2007, and some of its clergy have gone out as missionaries to places such as Brazil and Quebec.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- B.P. 74, 1 Route de Lamandou, 9110 Jacmel, Haïti, W.I.
- Telephone
- 3789-2807
- [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].