Diocese of Ambatondrazaka

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Diocese of Ambatondrazaka
Basic data
Country Madagascar
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Toamasina
Diocesan bishop Jean de Dieu Raoelison
Emeritus diocesan bishop Antoine Scopelliti OSsT
Vicar General Claudio Roberti
founding 1959
surface 21,436 km²
Parishes 13 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Residents 1,223,000 (December 31, 2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics 232.025 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
proportion of 19%
Diocesan priest 9 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Religious priest 16 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics per priest 9,281
Friars 47 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Religious sisters 125 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
Malagasy

The Bistum Ambatondrazaka ( lat. : Dioecesis Ambatondrazakaënsis ) is in Madagascar preferred Roman Catholic diocese based in Ambatondrazaka .

history

The diocese Ambatondrazaka was on May 21, 1959 by Pope John XXIII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Sublimis atque fecunda from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Diégo-Suarez and Tananarive and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Tananarive as a suffragan . On May 13, 2006, the Diocese of Ambatondrazaka gave up parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Moramanga . The Diocese of Ambatondrazaka was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Toamasina on February 26, 2010 as a suffragan.

Bishops of Ambatondrazaka

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Sublimis atque fecunda , AAS 51 (1959), n. 14-15, pp. 801ff.