The Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral ( ) also called Cap-Haïtien Cathedral Is the name that receives a temple affiliated to the

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that is located in the city of

Cap-Haïtien Cap-Haïtien (; ; "Haitian Cape") is a List of communes of Haiti, commune of about 400,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the Departments of Haiti, department of Nord (Haitian department), Nord. Previously named ''Cap‑Fran� ...

in the Department of the North in the Hispaniola island and to the north of the

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country of

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. The present building dates from 1670, when Haiti was a colony of

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and is a testimony of its presence in the Caribbean. In the square of the cathedral the liberation of the slaves was proclaimed the 29 of August 1793. It was affected by an earthquake in 1842, and underwent considerable modifications between 1941 and 1942. In 2011 it was attacked by strangers and internal wreckage in monuments, the Vatican flag and the Blessed Sacrament, the police also found pamphlets of alleged groups ''Protestants''. Pastor Sylvain Exantus, President of the Protestant Federation of Haiti, immediately condemned these acts. The cathedral was then closed for a short time. The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and is the mother church of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cape Haitian (''Archidioecesis Capitis Haitiani'') which was created as a diocese in 1861 by

Pope Pius IX Pope Pius IX (; born Giovanni Maria Battista Pietro Pellegrino Isidoro Mastai-Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878. His reign of nearly 32 years is the longest verified of any pope in hist ...

and raised its current status in 1988 through the bull "Qui pro Nostro" of

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. It is under the pastoral responsibility of Bishop Max Leroy Mésidor.

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