Ranarivelo Samoela Jaona (born 25 January 1962) is the current Malagasy Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Antananarivo. He was consecrated on the 29 June 2008 at the cathedral of Saint Laurent's in Ambohimanoro, and is the fourth

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. He currently chairs the central office of the Eklesia Episkopaly Malagasy (Malagasy Episcopal Church) that unites the Anglican dioceses in Madagascar. The Diocese of Antananarivo is within the Anglican Church of the Indian Ocean Province. Ranarivelo was educated at th
Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique Antsiranana
and Vontovorona. He also studied theology at Institut Supérieur de Théologie et de Philosophie à Madagascar, now the Catholic University of Madagascar, Ambatoroka. He continued with studies in philosophy at the

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. He was made deacon in 1995 and ordained as an Anglican priest in 1998 at Cathédrale St Laurent. He was

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at the Ankilifaly Anglican church in Toliara before continuing his theological studies at the Kwazulu Natal University, Pietermaritzburg,

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