Римско -католическая архиепархия Антиранана
- Существует также англиканский епископ Антиранана в церкви провинции Индийского океана.
Antsiranana Archdioesce of Antsiranana Archidioecesis antsirananensis | |
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Расположение | |
Страна | Мадагаскар |
Церковная провинция | Антиранана |
Статистика | |
Область | 37,924 км 2 (14,643 кв. МИ) |
Население - Общий - католики | (По состоянию на 2014 год) 1,573,833 662,873 (42.1%) |
Приходы | 26 |
Информация | |
Деноминация | Римско -католик |
Нравиться | Римский обряд |
Established | 16 January 1896 |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Benjamin Marc Balthason RamarosonC.M. |

Римско -католическая архиепархия Антиранана является одним из пяти столичных латиноамериканских архиеологических наук на Мадагаскаре . Хотя он имеет свою церковную провинцию , она остается предметом миссионерской римской общины для евангелизации народов .
Его собор архиепископальный собор - собор священного сердца Иисуса, посвященный священному сердцу Иисуса , в Антиранане .
История
[ редактировать ]Он был основан 16 января 1896 года как апостольский викариат северного Мадагаскара , на территории, отделенной от тогдашнего апостольского викариата Мадагаскара (ныне столичный архиепископрик Антананариво)
Был . On 15 March 1923 it lost territory to establish the then 15 марта 1923 года 1955 г. было повышено 14 сентября
Promoted on 11 December 1958 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Diégo-Suarez, during the transition from French colony to independence. On 21 May 1959 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Ambatondrazaka. It enjoyed a Papal visit by Pope John Paul II in April 1989.
Renamed on 28 October 1989 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Antsiranana. On 30 October 2000 it lost further territory to establish the Diocese of Fenoarivo Atsinanana.
Ecclesiastical province
[edit]The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Antsiranana has the following suffragan sees :
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Ambanja
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Mahajanga
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Port-Bergé
Statistics
[edit]As per 2014, it pastorally served 662,873 Catholics (42.1% of 1,573,833 total) on 37,924 km2 in 26 parishes with 65 priests (51 diocesan, 14 religious), 194 lay religious (42 brothers, 152 sisters) and 54 seminarians.
It had a total population of about 2,211,890 in 2004. About 15.5% of the residents were Catholic. 46 Priests operated in the Archdiocese, making for a ratio of 7,464 Catholics per Priest. The Archbishop as of November 2013 is Benjamin Marc Ramaroson.
Episcopal ordinaries
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- Apostolic Vicar of North Madagascar
- François-Xavier Corbet Holy Ghost Fathers (C.S.Sp.), (5 July 1898 – 20 May 1913 see below), Titular Bishop of Obba (5 July 1898 – death 25 July 1914)
- Apostolic vicars of Diego Suarez
- François-Xavier Corbet (C.S.Sp.), (see above 20 May 1913 – death 25 July 1914)
- Auguste Julien Pierre Fortineau (C.S.Sp.), (25 July 1914 – retired 1946.04), Titular Bishop of Chytri (17 July 1914 – death 9 February 1948), succeeding as former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Diégo-Suarez (17 July 1914 – 25 July 1914)
- Edmond-Marie-Jean Wolff (C.S.Sp.), (11 December 1958 – 13 April 1967 see below), Titular Bishop of Phatanus (8 July 1941 – 14 September 1955), previously Apostolic Vicar of Majunga (Madagascar) (8 July 1941 – 13 February 1947)
- Suffragan bishop of Diego Suarez
- Edmond-Marie-Jean Wolff (C.S.Sp.), (see above 14 September 1955 – 11 December 1958 see below)
- Metropolitan archbishops of Diego Suarez
- Edmond-Marie-Jean Wolff (C.S.Sp.), (11 December 1958 – retired 13 April 1967), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Gummi in Byzacena (13 April 1967 – resigned 24 May 1971), died 1990
- Albert Joseph Tsiahoana, (13 April 1967 – 28 October 1989 see below); succeeding as former auxiliary bishop of Diégo-Suarez (Madagascar) (10 February 1964 – 13 April 1967) and Titular Bishop of Abthugni (10 February 1964 – 13 April 1967)
- Metropolitan archbishops of Antsiranana
- Albert Joseph Tsiahoana, (28 October 1989 – 14 November 1998), died 2012
- Michel Malo, Association of Priests of Prado (Ist. del Prado) (28 November 1998 – retired 27 November 2013); previously Titular Bishop of Croæ (1 September 1988 – 29 March 1996), first as Auxiliary Bishop of Mahajanga (Madagascar) (1 September 1988 – 18 October 1993) and next Auxiliary Bishop of Antsiranana (18 October 1993 – 29 March 1996), next Bishop of Mahajanga (Madagascar) (29 March 1996 – 28 November 1998)
- Benjamin Marc Ramaroson, (27 November 2013 - ...), previously Bishop of Farafangana (Madagascar) (26 November 2005 – 27 November 2013).