Archdiocese of Toliara
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toliara is one of five Metropolitan archdioceses with an Ecclesiastical province in Madagascar, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is in Toliara.
Ecclesiastical province
Its Suffragan sees are :- Roman Catholic Diocese of Morombe
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Morondava
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Tôlagnaro
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 119,638 Catholics on 43,570 km2 in 23 parishes and 1 mission with 63 priests, 373 lay religious and 18 seminarians.History
- Established on 1957.04.08 as Diocese of Tuléar, on territty split off from the Diocese of Fort-Dauphin
- Renamed on 1989.10.28 like its see as Diocese of Toliara
- Promoted on 2003.12.03 as '''Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toliara'''
Bishops
Ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Tuléar- Michel-Henri Canonne, Assumptionists, died 1991
- René Joseph Rakotondrabé, previously Titular Bishop of Umbriatico as Auxiliary Bishop of Tuléar ; later Bishop of Tamatave, Bishop of Toamasina, died 2012
;Metropolitan Archbishops of Toliara
- Fulgence Rabeony, S.J., also President of Episcopal Conference of Madagascar
Auxiliary Bishop
- René Joseph Rakotondrabé, appointed Bishop here