Convention makes Jules Tonti archbishop of Port-au-Prince

ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. The archdiocese of Port-au-Prince extends its jurisdiction over the parishes or communes, quartiers, postes militaires, rural sections of the arrondissements of Port-au-Prince, of Léogâne, of Jacmel, of Mirebalais and of Lascahobas. The bishopric of the Cayes (department of the South), that of the Cap, serving the department of the North, that of Port-de-Paix, serving the whole Northwest, and that of the Gonaives for the Artibonite, are suffragan to the archbishopric of Port-au-Prince. Port-au-Prince is divided into 3 parishes: that of the Cathedral, that of Ste. Anne and that of St. Joseph. Monsignor Jules Tonti, titular bishop of Samos, extraordinary envoy and delegate of the Holy See to the governments of Venezuela, of Saint-Domingue (Dominicanie) and of Haiti, was raised by the Holy See, at the request of the Government of Haiti, to the archiepiscopal dignity and named archbishop of Port-au-Prince (the third apostolic administrator of the diocese of the Gonaives). [Convention of 9 February 1893].

Rouzier tells this under the entry PORT-AU PRINCE [le].