Diocese of Fort-Liberté, Haiti 🇭🇹

Continent: Central America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Fort-Liberté / Castelli Libertatis (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Cap-Haïtien

Neighbouring Dioceses: Les Gonaïves (↙), Port-de-Paix (←), Cap-Haïtien (→)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Celebrations

Cathedral Dedication Anniversary: March 18

Liturgical Calendar 📅

History

1991.01.31: Established as Diocese of Fort-Liberté / Castelli Libertatis (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cap-Haïtien and Diocese of Hinche and became suffragan of Cap-Haïtien)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2014.10.25 – ...):

Bishop Quesnel Alphonse, S.M.M. (76)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Fort-Liberté (Roman Rite)

Bishop Quesnel Alphonse, S.M.M. (76)
(2014.10.25 – ...)

Bishop of Fort-Liberté (Haiti)

Born:	1949.12.01 (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Ordained Priest:	1977.07.16
Consecrated Bishop:	2012.12.22

Titular Bishop of Dionysiana (2012.11.10 – 2014.10.25)

Auxiliary Bishop of Port-au-Prince (Haiti) (2012.11.10 – 2014.10.25)

Bishop of Fort-Liberté (Haiti) (2014.10.25 – ...)

Archbishop Max Leroy Mésidor (64)
(Apostolic Administrator 2013.12 – 2014.10.25)

Bishop Max Leroy Mésidor (64) (later Archbishop)
(2012.06.09 – 2013.11.01)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
President of Episcopal Conference of Haiti

Born:	1962.01.06 (Saint-Marc, Haiti)
Ordained Priest:	1988.01.10
Consecrated Bishop:	2012.07.28

Priest of Les Gonaïves (Haiti) (1988.01.10 – 2012.06.09)

Bishop of Fort-Liberté (Haiti) (2012.06.09 – 2013.11.01)

Coadjutor Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien (Haiti) (2013.11.01 – 2014.11.22)

Apostolic Administrator of Fort-Liberté (Haiti) (2013.12 – 2014.10.25)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien (Haiti) (2014.11.22 – 2017.10.07)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Port-au-Prince (Haiti) (2017.10.07 – ...)

Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Haiti (2021.04.14 – 2023.11.28)

President of Episcopal Conference of Haiti (2023.11.28 – ...)

Bishop Chibly Langlois (67) (later Cardinal)
(Apostolic Administrator 2011.10 – 2012.06.09)

Bishop Chibly Langlois (67) (later Cardinal)
(2004.04.08 – 2011.08.15)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Giacomo in Augusta
Bishop of Les Cayes (Haiti)

Servire cum caritate

Born:	1958.11.29 (La Vallée, Haiti)
Ordained Priest:	1991.09.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2004.06.06
Created Cardinal:	2014.02.22

Priest of Jacmel (Haiti) (1991.09.22 – 2004.04.08)

Bishop of Fort-Liberté (Haiti) (2004.04.08 – 2011.08.15)

Bishop of Les Cayes (Haiti) (2011.08.15 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Fort-Liberté (Haiti) (2011.10 – 2012.06.09)

President of Episcopal Conference of Haiti (2011.12 – 2017.12.01)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Giacomo in Augusta (2014.02.22 [2014.06.07] – ...)

Bishop Hubert Constant, O.M.I. (later Archbishop)
(1991.01.31 – 2003.11.05)

Born:	1931.09.18 (Camp-Perrin, Haiti)
Ordained Priest:	1958.09.15
Consecrated Bishop:	1991.04.07
Died:	2011.09.23 (Haiti † 80)

Bishop of Fort-Liberté (Haiti) (1991.01.31 – 2003.11.05)

President of Episcopal Conference of Haiti (1998 – 2005)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien (Haiti) (2003.11.05 – 2008.03.01)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale Saint-Joseph, Fort-Liberté, Nord-Est

Les Gonaïves (↙), Port-de-Paix (←), Cap-Haïtien (→)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 163 km²

Population: 352,000 Catholics (58.7% of 600,005 total)

Pastoral Centres: 37 parishes, 63 missions

Personnel: 78 priests (48 diocesan, 30 religious), 104 religious (42 brothers, 62 sisters), 21 seminarians