Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antananarivo

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Archdiocese of Antananarivo

Archidioecesis Antananarivensis
Odon Marie Arsène Razanakolona

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antananarivo is one of five Latin

Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
.

Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale de l'Immaculée Conception, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, in Andohalo, in the national capital city of Antananarivo.

The archdiocese was, for many years, one of the bases for the spreading of Catholicism in Madagascar and the surrounding British and especially

French Indian Ocean territories like Réunion, Comoros
and others, which now form an Indian Ocean Episcopal Conference.

Statistics

As per 2014 it pastorally served 957,000 Catholics (27.0% of 3,550,000 total) on 12,500 km2 in 77 parishes and 22 missions with 356 priests (160 diocesan, 196 religious), 2,333 lay religious (568 brothers, 1,765 sisters) and 131 seminarians.

The archdiocese had a total population of about 2,1816,7149 in 2004, with about 27.1% of the residents being Catholic; 277 Priests operated in the Archdiocese, making for a ratio of 2,750 Catholics per priest.

Ecclesiastical province

The suffragan dioceses and the bishops in the ecclesiastical province of Antananrivo headed by the Metropolitan Archbishop of Antananrivo are (2017):

History

  • What is now the Archdiocese of Antananarivo was founded as the
    La Réunion
    . It was influential in the spreading of Christianity on Madagascar, despite what became known as "ny tany maizina", or "the time when the land was dark." It was a time of absolute persecution of any Malagasy that converted to Christianity and it is estimated that 150,000 Christians died then.
  • In 1848, it was promoted to the
    Apostolic Prefecture of Mayotte, Nossi-Bé and Comoro
    .

On 1896.01.16 it lost Malagassy (Malgache) territory to establish the then

Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Madagascar
(now Metropolitan Archdioceses). In 1898 it was accordingly renamed itself as the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Madagascar (Madagascar Centrale).

On 20 May 1913, it was renamed after its see as the Apostolic Vicariate of Tananarive.

It lost more Malagassy territory on Madagascar thrice more : on 1933.12.13 to establish the

Apostolic Prefecture of Morondava
.

  • On 1955.09.14 it was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tananarive / Tananariven(sis) (Latin)

On 1959.05.21 it again lost Malagassy territory to establish the

Diocese of Ambatondrazaka
.

  • On 1989.10.28 it was renamed, with its see, as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Antananarivo.

Ordinaries

Until World War II its ordinaries were generally French missionaries of Latin congregations.[1]

Apostolic Prefects of Madagascar
  • Father Jean-Pierre Dalmond,
    C.S.Sp.
    (1841.12 – death 1847.09.22)
Apostolic Vicars of Madagascar
  • Alexandre-Hippolyte-Xavier Monnet, C.S.Sp. (1848.10.03 – death 1849.12.01),
    Congregation of the Holy Spirit
    (Spiritans, Holy Ghost Fathers) (1848.03.02 – 1848.10.03)
Apostolic Vicars of Central Madagascar
  • Jean-Baptiste Cazet (1885.05.05 – retired 1911.08.30), Titular Bishop of
    Sozusa (in Palaestina)
    (1885.05.05 – death 1918.03.06)
  • Henri de Lespinasse de Saune,
    Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic
    of Central Madagascar (1899.11.22 – 1911.08.30)
Apostolic Vicars of Tananarive
  • Henri de Lespinasse de Saune, S.J. (1913.05.20 – retired 1927.03.07)
  • Étienne Fourcadier (1928.02.15 – retired 1947.04.22), Titular Bishop of
    Hippo Diarrhytus
    (1928.02.18 – death 1948.05.02)
  • Victor Sartre, S.J. (1948.03.11 – 1955.09.14), Titular Bishop of Vaga (1948.03.11 – 1955.09.14)
Metropolitan Archbishops of Tananarive
Metropolitan Archbishops of Antananarivo

See also

References

  1. ^ "Archdiocese of Antananarivo, Madagascar".
  2. ^ "Rinunce e nomine" (Press release). 11 April 2015. Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Rinunce e nomine, 05.06.2023" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2023.

Sources and external links

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