Guadeloupe

A Creole diocesan priest, Fr. Manuel Moralès, is assassinated at the age of 83. In August, a group of young adults, men and women, takes part in the Jubilee World…

A demonstration at Basse-Terre by at least 12,000 Christians in support of the Association for homeless children in danger of abuse. In August of the same year, 231 boys and…

Opening of the diocesan Synod in the cathedral of Basse-Terre which will last for two years. The closure is in the velodrome of Gourde Liane at Baie-Mahault.

Small Christian communities become a priority in the pastoral plan.

A delegation goes to Rome for the beatification of Mère Anne-Marie Javouhey, the founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny. Her first missionaries arrived in Guadeloupe in 1822…

There are 61 priests in the diocese: 22 seculars and 39 Spiritans.

The ordination of Georges Magloire who came from Les Saintes on the island.

Centenary of the arrival of the Sisters of St. Joseph de Cluny. It was also the year of the worst cyclone of the century.

Propaganda asks the Congregation to assume responsibility for the old colonial dioceses of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Reunion, as well as the Apostolic Prefectures of St. Pierre & Miquelon and French…

Propaganda confides the diocese to the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. Mgr. Pierre Genoud is the first bishop, from 1913 to 1945. In 1910 there were 2 Spiritan priests, in…

As a result of the law separating Church and State, nurseries, orphanages, hospices and prison infirmaries are closed and 100 sisters are left without work.