Roman Catholic diocese in Madagascar
Diocese of Tsiroanomandidy
Dioecesis Tsiroanomandidyensis
Country Madagascar Metropolitan Antananarivo Area 40,000 km2 (15,000 sq mi) Population - Total - Catholics (as of 2004) 464,211 172,189 (37.1%) Rite Latin Rite Pope Francis Bishop Gabriel Randrianantenaina
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tsiroanomandidy (Latin : Tsiroanomandidyen(sis) ) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Antananarivo in Madagascar , yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples .
Its cathedral episcopal see is the (Marian) Cathédrale Notre Dame du Bon Remède, in Tsiroanomandidy , Antananarivo Province .
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 223,433 Catholics (37.2% of 600,167 total) on 40,000 km2 in 3 parishes and 19 missions with 45 priests (28 diocesan, 17 religious), 168 lay religious (36 brothers, 132 sisters) and 32 seminarians.
History
Ordinaries
(all Roman rite ; so far -mostly European missionary- members of Latin congregations)
Apostolic Prefect of Tsiroanomandidy
Father Angel Martínez Vivas, Trinitarians (O.SS.T.) (1949.01.14 – 1958.12.11 see below )
Suffragan Bishops of Tsiroanomandidy
See also
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