Diocese of Maintirano
Diocese of Maintirano Dioecesis Maintiranensis Diôsezin' i Maintirano | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Madagascar |
| Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Antananarivo |
| Headquarters | Maintirano, Melaky, Madagascar |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 38,852 km2 (15,001 sq mi) |
Population
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| Parishes | 1 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 8 February 2017 |
| Cathedral | Cathédrale de l’Assomption in Maintirano |
| Secular priests | 16 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Bishop | Clément Hérizo Rakotoasimbola, M.S. |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Jean de Dieu Raoelison |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Maintirano is a Latin Catholic suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antananarivo (national capital), one of five on Madagascar), yet it remains in the jurisdiction of the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale de l’Assomption, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, in Maintirano, Mahajanga Province.
History
Established on 8 February 2017, as the Diocese of Maintirano, on canonical territories split off from Diocese of Tsiroanomandidy (also in the Ecclesiastical province of Antananarivo), the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mahajanga (Ecclesiastical Province of Antsiranana) and the Diocese of Morondava (Ecclesiastical Province of Toliara).[1]
Episcopal Ordinaries
(Roman Rite; so far missionary European members of a Latin congregation)
- Suffragan Bishops of Maintirano