Roman Catholic Diocese of Tsiroanomandidy

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Diocese of Tsiroanomandidy

Dioecesis Tsiroanomandidyensis
Location
CountryMadagascar
Metropolitan Antananarivo
Statistics
Area40,000 km2 (15,000 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
464,211
172,189 (37.1%)
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Current leadership
Pope Francis
BishopGabriel 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.

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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
Suffragan Bishops of Tsiroanomandidy

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