Archdiocese of Toamasina

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toamasina is one of five Latin Metropolitan archdioceses on Madagascar, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is the Cathédrale Saint Joseph, dedicated to Saint Joseph in the city of Toamasina. It was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan Archdiocese by Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, February 26, 2010.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 620,022 Catholics on 23,690 km² in 21 parishes with 59 priests, 185 lay religious and 19 seminarians.

Toamasina has as suffragan sees:

Established on June 18, 1935 as Apostolic Prefecture of Vatomandry, on territories split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Fianarantsoa and Apostolic Vicariate of Tananarive
Promoted on May 25, 1939 and renamed after its new see as Apostolic Vicariate of Tamatave.
Promoted on September 14, 1955 as Diocese of Tamatave
On 1968.04.09 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Mananjary
Renamed on January 31, 1990 like its see as Diocese of Toamasina
Promoted on February 26, 2010 as '''Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toamasina'''

;Apostolic Prefect of Vatomandry
Father Alain-Sébastien Le Breton, Montfort Missionaries
;Apostolic Vicar of Tamatave

;Suffragan Bishops of Tamatave

Alain-Sébastien Le Breton, S.M.M. ; emeritate as Titular Bishop of Salona
Jules-Joseph Puset, Sulpicians, died 1983
Jérôme Razafindrazaka, died 1992
René Joseph Rakotondrabé ; previously Titular Bishop of Umbriatico as Auxiliary Bishop of Tuléar, succeeding as Bishop of Tuléar

;Suffragan Bishops of Toamasina

;Metropolitan Archbishops of Toamasina