Pierre-André Dumas

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Pierre-André Dumas (2009)

Pierre-André Dumas (born September 26, 1962 in Saint-Jean du Sud , Haiti ) is Bishop of Anse-à-Veau et Miragoâne .

Life

Pierre-André Dumas attended two renowned high schools in Port-au-Prince , the Lycée Alexandre Pétion and the Lycée Jean Jacques Dessalines . He then went to France at the age of 18 to study medicine. There he got to know the Taize community . Roger Schutz impressed him deeply. Dumas decided to become a priest. He studied philosophy at the Lateran University in Rome and theology at the Gregorian , where he also obtained a licentiate in theology with a dissertation on biblical theology . At the same time he was pastor in Rebibbia prison in Rome. On May 26, 1991 he received the sacrament of ordination for the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince through Pope John Paul II .

After his return to Haiti, he was chaplain in Pétionville , teacher at the Propaedeutic Seminary in the Jacquet district of Port-au-Prince, vice-rector and finally rector of the national seminary in Port-au-Prince.

On December 10, 2002, Pope John Paul II appointed him titular bishop of Floriana and appointed him auxiliary bishop in Port-au-Prince. The President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace , Roger Cardinal Etchegaray , donated him episcopal ordination on February 22, 2003 ; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien , François Gayot SMM , and the Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, François-Wolff Ligondé . In 2006 he was appointed rector of the Université Notre-Dame d'Haïti in Port-au-Prince.

On July 13, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . as bishop of the new diocese of Anse-à-Veau et Miragoâne. His episcopal motto “Caritas Christi urget nos” ( Latin: The love of Christ urges us ) is a quotation from the 2nd Corinthians ( 2 Cor 5:14  EU ).

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Footnotes

  1. a b Valéry Daudier: Un nouveau diocèse dans les Nippes . In: Le Nouvelliste (Port-au-Prince), July 14, 2008.
  2. a b Ángel Alberto Morillo: Un obispo en acción por las periferias haitianas . In: Revista Suma Qamaña , Bogotá, edition of April 17, 2017.