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"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.
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.
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 .
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%)
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.
Haiti: Ecclesiastical province: Province of Cap-Haïtien: Metropolitan: Port-de-Paix: Statistics; Area: 4,500 km 2 (1,700 sq mi) Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2004) 550,000 330,000 (60%) Parishes: 17: Information; Denomination: Roman Catholic: Rite: Latin Rite: Established: 3 October 1861 (163 years ago) Cathedral: Cathedral of the ...
Most of the population of Haiti adheres to the Catholic faith, though some combine this with elements of vodou. Protestantism was introduced to the newly independent nation in 1807, and missionary efforts have been ongoing. Today, Protestants make up at least one-sixth of the population and as much as one-third. [5]
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.