Country Madagascar Rite Latin Rite Area 46,620 km² | Metropolitan Toliara Pope Francis | |
Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2004)
460,200
41,620 (9.0%) Bishop Marie Fabien Raharilamboniaina, O.C.D. Ecclesiastical province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toliara |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Morondava (Latin: Morondaven(sis)) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Toliara (one of five in Madagascar), yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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Its cathedral episcopal see is the (Marian) Cathédrale Maria Manjaka Namahora, in the city of Morondava, Toliara province.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 54,895 Catholics (9.8% of 560,000 total) on 45,200 km² in 17 parishes and 26 missions with 42 priests (8 diocesan, 34 religious), 156 lay religious (39 brothers, 117 sisters) and 20 seminarians.
History
Ordinaries
(all Roman rite, so far -mostly European missionary- members of Latin congregations)
References
Roman Catholic Diocese of Morondava Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA