Archdiocese of Antananarivo


The Archdiocese of Antananarivo is one of five Latin Church metropolitan archdioceses in Madagascar.
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.
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Statistics

it pastorally served 957,000 Catholics on 12,500 km2 in 77 parishes and 22 missions with 356 priests, 2,333 lay religious 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 :

History

On 1896.01.16 it lost Malagassy territory to establish the then Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Madagascar and then Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Madagascar. In 1898 it was accordingly renamed itself as the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Madagascar.
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 Mission sui juris of Miarinarivo, on 1935.06.18 to establish the then Apostolic Prefecture of Vatomandry and on 1938.01.08 to establish the then Apostolic Prefecture of Morondava.
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.
;Apostolic Prefects of Madagascar
  • Father Jean-Pierre Dalmond, C.S.Sp.
;Apostolic Vicars of Madagascar
;Apostolic Vicars of Central Madagascar
;Apostolic Vicars of Tananarive
  • Henri de Lespinasse de Saune, S.J.
  • Étienne Fourcadier, Titular Bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus
  • Victor Sartre, S.J., Titular Bishop of Vaga
;Metropolitan Archbishops of Tananarive
;Metropolitan Archbishops of Antananarivo