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In March 2012, the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince, in collaboration with Faith & Form magazine and the Institute for the Safeguarding of National Heritage (ISPAN), a Haitian-government institution, launched an international design competition inviting the architects from all over the world to submit ideas that would inform the reconstruction of the cathedral.
"After years of negotiations, a concordat between the Catholic Church and the Haitian government was signed on 28 March 1860. In December 1860, Monseigneur Monetti arrived as the Church's delegate. Pope Pius IX signed the Concordat with Haiti. The concordat provided that the Catholic Church would have the special protection of the Government.
The Catholic Church in Haiti (Greater Antilles) consists only of a Latin hierarchy, joint in the national Episcopal Conference of Haiti , comprising two ecclesiastical provinces , each headed by a Metropolitan Archbishop , with a total of each suffragan dioceses , each headed by a bishop .
Pierre-Marie Gentet (10 December 1895 – 6 March 1896) Jules-Victor-Marie Pichon (Coadjutor: 13 January 1905 – 18 December 1919) Rémy Augustin, SMM (8 April 1953 – 20 August 1966) Jean-Baptiste Décoste (20 August 1966 – 20 April 1972) Louis Nerval Kébreau, SDB (25 November 1986 – 30 June 1998) Joseph Lafontant (25 November 1986 ...
Location; Country Haiti Ecclesiastical province: Province of Cap-Haïtien: Statistics; Area: 2,200 km 2 (850 sq mi): Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2006) 1,463,520 778,110 (53.2%)
It is believed that the impact of this speech on the Catholic bureaucracy in Haiti contributed to his removal in 1986. According to the Catholic Church in Haiti, the 10 dioceses of the two ecclesiastical provinces of Haiti include 251 parishes and about 1,500 Christian rural communities. The local clergy has 400 diocesan priests and 300 ...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jacmel (Latin: Dioecesis Iacmeliensis), erected 25 February 1988, is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince. The diocese began with ten priests, and in 2007 had over fifty. Some have been sent as missionaries to such places as Brazil and Quebec.
The ecclesiastical province of Port-au-Prince (the archdiocese and the four suffragan dioceses of Cap Haïtien, Les Gonaïves, Les Cayes, and Port-de-Paix) dates from the reorganization following upon the Concordat of 1860 between Pope Pius IX and the Republic of Haiti.