Diocese of Fenoarivo Atsinanana, Madagascar 🇲🇬

Continent: Southern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Fenoarivo Atsinanana / Fenoariven(sis)–Atsinananen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Toamasina

Neighbouring Dioceses: Ambatondrazaka (↙), Port-Bergé (↖), Ambanja (↑), Antsiranana (↗)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

2000.10.30: Established as Diocese of Fenoarivo Atsinanana / Fenoariven(sis)–Atsinananen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Antsiranana and became suffragan of Antsiranana)
2010.02.26: Became suffragan of Toamasina

Present Prelates

Bishop (2025.04.17 – ...):

Bishop Marek Ochlak, O.M.I. (60)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Fenoarivo Atsinanana (Roman Rite)

Bishop Marek Ochlak, O.M.I. (60)
(2025.04.17 – ...)

Bishop of Fenoarivo Atsinanana (Madagascar)

Adveniat regnum tuum

Born:	1966.03.14 (Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, Poland)
Ordained Priest:	1992.06.20
Consecrated Bishop:	2025.07.06

Bishop of Fenoarivo Atsinanana (Madagascar) (2025.04.17 – ...)

Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana (71)
(Apostolic Administrator 2025.01.05 – 2025.04.17)

Bishop Marcellin Randriamamonjy (62)
(2009.02.10 – 2024.10.31)

Bishop of Farafangana (Madagascar)

Born:	1963.04.12 (Sandrandahy, Madagascar)
Ordained Priest:	1992.08.30
Consecrated Bishop:	2009.05.17

Priest of Ambositra (Madagascar) (1992.08.30 – 2009.02.10)

Bishop of Fenoarivo Atsinanana (Madagascar) (2009.02.10 – 2024.10.31)

Bishop of Farafangana (Madagascar) (2024.10.31 – ...)

Bishop Désiré Tsarahazana (71) (later Cardinal)
(Apostolic Administrator 2008.12 – 2009.02.10)

Bishop Désiré Tsarahazana (71) (later Cardinal)
(2000.10.30 – 2008.11.24)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Gregorio Barbarigo alle Tre Fontane
Metropolitan Archbishop of Toamasina (Madagascar)

Vince in bono malum

Born:	1954.06.13 (Amboagibe-Sambava, Madagascar)
Ordained Priest:	1986.09.28
Consecrated Bishop:	2001.02.18
Created Cardinal:	2018.06.28

Priest of Antsiranana (Madagascar) (1986.09.28 – 2000.10.30)

Bishop of Fenoarivo Atsinanana (Madagascar) (2000.10.30 – 2008.11.24)

Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Madagascar (2006 – 2012.11)

Bishop of Toamasina (Madagascar) (2008.11.24 – 2010.02.26)

Apostolic Administrator of Fenoarivo Atsinanana (Madagascar) (2008.12 – 2009.02.10)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Toamasina (Madagascar) (2010.02.26 – ...)

President of Episcopal Conference of Madagascar (2012.11 – 2021.11.11)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Gregorio Barbarigo alle Tre Fontane (2018.06.28 [2018.12.23] – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Fenoarivo Atsinanana (Madagascar) (2025.01.05 – 2025.04.17)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale Saint-Maurice, Fenoarivo Atsinanana, Toamasina

Ambatondrazaka (↙), Port-Bergé (↖), Ambanja (↑), Antsiranana (↗)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 25,000 km²

Population: 432,923 Catholics (26.6% of 1,626,672 total)

Pastoral Centres: 11 parishes

Personnel: 44 priests (diocesan), 75 religious (75 sisters), 51 seminarians