Diocese of Ambositra

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Diocese of Ambositra
Basic data
Country Madagascar
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Fianarantsoa
Diocesan bishop Fidelis Rakotonarivo SJ
Vicar General Georges Ralaisolo
surface 24,000 km²
Parishes 21 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Residents 815,864 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics 405,282 (2015 / AP 2016 )
proportion of 49.7%
Diocesan priest 43 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious priest 10 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics per priest 7,647
Friars 35 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious sisters 166 (2015 / AP 2016 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
Malagasy
cathedral Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

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

history

The Diocese of Ambositra was established on June 3, 1999 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Cum ad aeternam from ceding territories of the Archdiocese of Fianarantsoa and subordinated to this as a suffragan diocese.

Bishops of Ambositra

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Individual evidence

  1. Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Cum ad aeternam , AAS 91 (1999), n.11, pp. 1026f.