Roman Catholic Diocese of Maintirano

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Maintirano is a Latin Catholic suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antananarivo (national capital), one of five on Madagascar), yet it remains in the jurisdiction of the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale de l’Assomption, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, in Maintirano, Mahajanga Province.

History

.Established on 8 February 2017, as the Diocese of Maintirano, on canonical territories split off from Diocese of Tsiroanomandidy (also in the Ecclesiastical province of Antananarivo), the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mahajanga (Ecclesiastical Province of Antsiranana) and the Diocese of Morondava (Ecclesiastical Province of Toliara). [1]

Episcopal Ordinaries

(Roman Rite; so far missionary European members of a Latin congregation)

Suffragan Bishops of Maintirano

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References

  1. "Diocese of Maintirano, Madagascar".