The Roman Catholic Diocese of Maintirano is a Latin Catholic

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diocese in the

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of the Metropolitan

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antananarivo The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antananarivo is one of five Latin Metropolitan Archdioceses in Madagascar, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale de l' ...

(national capital), one of five on

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), yet it remains in the jurisdiction of the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its

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episcopal see is the Cathédrale de l’Assomption, dedicated to the

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, in

Maintirano Maintirano is a coastal city, commune urbaine (urban municipality), ( mg, kaominina) and Catholic bishopric in western Madagascar approximately 325 kilometres west of the capital Antananarivo. It belongs to the district of Maintirano, which is a p ...

Mahajanga Province Mahajanga was a former province of Madagascar that had an area of 150,023 km². It had a population of 1,896,000 (2004). Its capital was Mahajanga, the second largest city in Madagascar. Except for Fianarantsoa, Mahajanga Province bordere ...

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 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mahajanga ( la, Mahagiangan(us)) is a diocese located in the city of Mahajanga in the Ecclesiastical province of Antsiranana in Madagascar. History * March 15, 1923: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Majunga from ...

(Ecclesiastical Province of Antsiranana) and the Diocese of Morondava (Ecclesiastical Province of Toliara).

Episcopal Ordinaries

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; so far missionary European members of a Latin congregation) ;''Suffragan Bishops of Maintirano'' *

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) (2017.02.08 – ...), previously Bishop of co-mother-see

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 ...

(Madagascar) (2003.10.04 – 2017.02.08).

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History

Episcopal Ordinaries

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