Diocese of Fenoarivo Atsinanana
Fenoariven(sis) Orientalis(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Fenoarivo Atsinanana, Madagascar
Latin Church diocese in eastern Madagascar, erected on October 30, 2000, suffragan to the metropolitan Archdiocese of Toamasina. Bishop Marek Ochlak, a Polish Oblate of Mary Immaculate, was appointed on April 17, 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 30 October 2000
- Latin
- Fenoariven(sis) Orientalis(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001408
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 110,850
- Population
- 739,116
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 15.0%
- Priests
- 44
- Catholics per priest
- 2,519
- Extent
- 25,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.4
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Marek Ochlak
- Born
- 14 March 1966
- Birthplace
- Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
- Institute
- MISSIONARI OBLATI DI MARIA IMMACOLATA
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedrale Saint-Maurice stands in Fenoarivo Atsinanana, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Toamasina
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Toamasina.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ToamasinaToamasina
- Diocese of AmbatondrazakaAmbatondrazaka
- Diocese of MoramangaMoramanga
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Madagascar's ecclesiastical province of Toamasina, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fenoarivo Atsinanana (Latin: Fenoariven(sis)-Atsinananen(sis)) is seated in the city of Fenoarivo Atsinanana. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale Saint Maurice, in that same city in Toamasina Province.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.