Diocese of Port-de-Paix
Portus Pacis
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Port-de-Paix, Haiti
Latin-rite diocese covering Haiti's Nord-Ouest department, erected 3 October 1861. Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cap-Haitien, with its seat at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Port-de-Paix. Bishop Charles Peters Barthelus has led the diocese since 2020.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 October 1861
- Latin
- Portus Pacis
- Annuario code
- 001002635
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 330,000
- Population
- 550,000
- Catholic share
- 60.0%
- Priests
- 52
- Catholics per priest
- 6,346
- Extent
- 4,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 73
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
- Charles Peters Barthelus
- Born
- 14 November 1970
- Birthplace
- Marchand-Dessalines
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 the Immaculate Conception, Port-de-Paix stands in Port-de-Paix, 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 Fort-LibertéFort-Liberté
- Diocese of HincheHinche
- Diocese of Les GonaïvesLes Gonaïves
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The see of Port-de-Paix dates to 3 October 1861. Known in French as the Diocèse catholique romain de Port-de-Paix and in Latin as Romano-Catholicae Dioecesis Portus-de-Paix, this Roman Catholic diocese belongs, as a suffragan, to the Archdiocese of Cap-Haïtien.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché,5 rue Amiral Killick, B.P. 61, HT-3110 Port-de-Paix, Haïti, W.I.
- Telephone
- 3387-3678; 4025-4514
- [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].