"The Conference of Catholic Bishops of Haiti gives thanks to God for the election of the new successor of Peter, Bishop of Rome and Universal Pastor of the Church: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who took the name of Pope Leo XIV. With the entire Church, in the joy of Easter and the obedience of faith, we welcome the new Pontiff who is given to us by Divine Providence to confirm his brothers in the faith (cf. Lk 22, 32) and to preside over charity," reads a statement signed by Monsignor Max Leroy Mésidor, Metropolitan Archbishop of Port-au-Prince and President of the Episcopal Conference of Haiti (CEH).

"In faithfulness to the constant doctrine of the Holy Catholic Church, united among ourselves in charity and with the new Roman Pontiff, we strongly affirm the unbreakable communion that binds us to the See of Peter, 'the perpetual and visible principle and foundation of unity both of the Bishops and of the multitude of the faithful' (Lumen Gentium, 23)," the statement continues.