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Diocese of Antsirabe Dioecesis Antsirabensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Madagascar |
Metropolitan | Antananarivo |
Statistics | |
Area | 16,000 km2 (6,200 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2006) 1,355,000 799,574 (59.0%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Cathedral | Our Lady of La Salette Cathedral |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Jean Pascal Andriantsoavina (nominiated 10/07/2023) [1] |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Antsirabe ( Latin: Antsiraben(sis)) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Antananarivo (one of five in Madagascar; in the national capital), yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the (Marian) Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, in the city of Antsirabe, Antananarivo Province.
As per 2014, it pastorally served 892,713 Catholics (45.4% of 1,967,703 total) on 16,000 km2 in 29 parishes and 2 missions with 125 priests (64 diocesan, 61 religious), 519 lay religious (198 brothers, 321 sisters) and 74 seminarians.
( Roman Rite, mostly members of missionary Latin congregations)
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