Archdiocese of Toamasina

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archdiocese of Toamasina
Basic data
Country Madagascar
Diocesan bishop Désiré Cardinal Tsarahazana
founding 1935
surface 23,690 km²
Parishes 23 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Residents 1,800,000 (December 31, 2004 / AP2005 )
Catholics 600,000 (December 31, 2004 / AP2005 )
proportion of 33.3%
Diocesan priest 14 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Religious priest 32 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Catholics per priest 13,043
Friars 65 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Religious sisters 60 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
Malagasy
cathedral Cathédrale de l'Immaculée Conception d'Andohalo
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Ambatondrazaka
Diocese of Fenoarivo Atsinanana
Diocese of Moramanga

The Erzbistum Toamasina ( latin Archidioecesis Toamasinensis ) is in Madagascar preferred Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Toamasina .

history

Pius IX founded the Apostolic Prefecture Vatomandry with the Apostolic Constitution Inter graviores on June 18, 1935 from cessions of territory of the Apostolic Vicariates Fianarantsoa and Tananarive . On May 25, 1939 she was raised to the Apostolic Vicariate and took the name Apostolic Vicariate Tamatave .

Elevated to the diocese, which was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Tananarive as a suffragan, it became with the Bull Dum tantis on September 14, 1955. On December 11, 1958 it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Antsiranana . On April 9, 1968, it lost part of its territory in favor of the establishment of the Diocese of Mananjary . On January 31, 1990, it took on its current name. It was raised to the rank of Metropolitan Archdiocese on February 26, 2010.

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefect of Vatomandry

Vicar Apostolic of Tamatave

  • Alain-Sébastien Le Breton SMM (May 25, 1939 - September 14, 1955)

Bishops of Tamatave

Bishops of Toamasina

  • René Joseph Rakotondrabé (January 31, 1990 - November 24, 2008)
  • Désiré Tsarahazana (November 24, 2008 - February 26, 2010)

Archbishop of Toamasina

  • Désiré Cardinal Tsarahazana (since February 26, 2010)

statistics

year population priest Permanent deacons Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number
Diocesan priest
Religious priest 		Catholics per
priest 		Friars Religious sisters
1950 41,849 371,500 11.3 36 36 1,162 62 37 2
1970 74.009 480.169 15.4 55 4th 51 1,345 59 65 6th
1980 88,237 565,000 15.6 39 7th 32 2,262 53 41 7th
1990 84,240 622.517 13.5 43 8th 35 1,959 55 87 14th
1999 299,000 1,300,000 23.0 29 5 24 10,310 44 57 22nd
2000 304.980 1,326,000 23.0 41 9 32 7,438 42 57 22nd
2001 450,000 1,620,000 27.8 54 13 41 8,333 63 57 23
2002 500,000 1,730,000 28.9 40 14th 26th 12,500 50 60 20th
2003 520,000 1,740,000 29.9 53 14th 39 9,811 60 59 23
2004 600,000 1,800,000 33.3 46 14th 32 13,043 65 60 23

See also

Web links