Roman Catholic Diocese of Basse-Terre

The Diocese of Basse -Terre ( et Pointe -à-Pitre ) (Latin: Dioecesis Imae et Telluris Petrirostrensis ) is a Roman Catholic diocese based in Basse -Terre to Basse -Terre, an island of the Lesser Antilles in the Islands to the winds in the Caribbean, the overseas department of France Guadeloupe.

Pope Pius IX. founded on 27 September 1850, Diocese of Guadeloupe et Basse -Terre from cessions of territory of the Diocese of Martinique and imputed it to the Archdiocese of Bordeaux suffragan. On July 19, 1951, the diocese was given its present name. On September 26, 1967, it was the Archdiocese of Saint- Pierre and Fort-de -France is a suffragan.

Bishops

Bishop of Guadeloupe et Basse -Terre

  • Pierre -Marie Gervais- Lacarrière (June 22, 1850 to April 6, 1853, resigned )
  • Théodore -Augustin Forcade MEP (April 6, 1853 to December 11, 1860, then Bishop of Nevers )
  • Antoine Boutonnet (March 10, 1862 to November 13, 1868, died )
  • Joseph Clair Reyne (December 27, 1869 to November 14, 1872, died )
  • François -Joseph Benjamin - Blanger (March 21, 1873 to July 3, 1883, then Bishop of Limoges )
  • Frédéric -Henri Oury (December 31, 1884 to March 2, 1886, then Bishop of Fréjus )
  • Pierre -Marie Avon (4 February 1899 to February 23, 1901, died )
  • Emmanuel François Canappe (April 5, 1901 to September 19, 1907, died )
  • Pierre -Louis Genoud CSSp (May 31, 1912 to May 17, 1945, emeritus)
  • Jean Gay CSSp (May 17, 1945-19. July 1951 )

Bishops of Basse- Terre et Pointe -a-Pitre

  • Jean Gay CSSp (19 July 1951 to January 29, 1968, resigned )
  • Siméon Oualli (June 29, 1970 to July 2, 1984, resigned )
  • Ernest Mesmin Lucien Cabo ( July 2, 1984 to 15 May 2008, emeritus)
  • Jean -Yves Riocreux (since 2012)
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