The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tsiroanomandidy ( la, Tsiroanomandidyen(sis)) is a

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Latin

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in the

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Antananarivo Antananarivo ( French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known as Antananarivo-Renivohitra ("Antananarivo-Mother Hill" or "An ...

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its

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episcopal see is the (Marian) Cathédrale Notre Dame du Bon Remède, in

Tsiroanomandidy Tsiroanomandidy is a city (commune urbaine) in central-western Madagascar, approximately 210 kilometres west of the capital Antananarivo. Tsiroanomandidy is the capital of Bongolava Region and of Tsiroanomandidy District. Its name means ''One p ...

Antananarivo Province Antananarivo Province is a former province of Madagascar with an area of . It had a population of 5,370,900 in 2004. Its capital was Antananarivo, which is also the capital of the country. Established in 1965, it was the most important province of ...

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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

* Established on January 13, 1949 as

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of Tsiroanomandidy, on territory split off from the

Apostolic Vicariate of Miarinarivo The Roman Catholic Diocese of Miarinarivo ( la, Miarinariven(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Miarinarivo in the Ecclesiastical province of Antananarivo in Madagascar. History * December 13, 1933: Established as Mission “sui iuris� ...

* Promoted on December 11, 1958 as Diocese of Tsiroanomandidy * Lost territory (like two other sees) on 2017.02.08 to establish the

Diocese of Maintirano 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 juri ...

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(all

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; so far -mostly European missionary- members of Latin congregations) ;''Apostolic Prefect of Tsiroanomandidy'' * Father Angel Martínez Vivas,

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(O.SS.T.) (1949.01.14 – 1958.12.11 ''see below'') ;''Suffragan Bishops of Tsiroanomandidy'' *

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, O.SS.T. (''see above'' 1958.12.11 – retired 1977.07.30), died 1981 *

Jean-Samuel Raobelina Jean-Samuel Raobelina, MS (27 June 1928 - 30. June 2001) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Tsiroanomandidy. Life Jean-Samuel Raobelina entered the Congregation of Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette and was ordained a priest on March 21, 195 ...

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(M.S.) (born Madagascar) (1978.04.27 – death 2001.06.30) *

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, O.SS.T. (2003.10.04 – 2017.02.08), next first Bishop of co-daughter-see

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(2021.04.30 – ...)

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GCatholic.org, with Google satellite photo

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