The Roman Catholic Diocese of Anse-à-Veau and Miragoâne ( la, Dioecesis Sinuvitullensis-Miragoanensis) is a

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located in the

Nippes Nippes ( French) or Nip ( Haitian Creole) is one of the ten departments (the highest-level political subdivisions) of Haiti located in southern Haiti. It is the most recently created department, having been split from Grand'Anse in 2003. The ...

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and s ...

. It is part of the

Ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of sev ...

Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( , ; ht, Pòtoprens ) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 987,311 in 2015 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is define ...

History

On 13 July 2008

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established the Diocese of Anse-à-Veau et Miragoâne from the Diocese of Les Cayes.

Ordinaries

* Pierre-André Dumas (July 13, 2008 – present)

Notable churches

*Cathedral of Saint Anne in

Anse-à-Veau Anse-à-Veau ( ht, Ansavo) is a commune in the Anse-à-Veau Arrondissement, in the Nippes department of Haiti. The postal code is HT 7510. In the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake A catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake str ...

*Co-Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in

Miragoâne Miragoâne ( ht, Miragwàn) is a coastal commune in western Haiti and the capital of the Nippes department. It is also the headquarters of the Miragoâne Arrondissement. It is regarded as one of the major ports in the trade in used goods. Bales ...

References

Roman Catholic dioceses in Haiti Anse-à-Veau and Miragoâne Anse-à-Veau and Miragoâne 2008 establishments in Haiti Nippes Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Port-au-Prince {{RC-diocese-stub