The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toliara is one of five Metropolitan archdioceses with an Ecclesiastical province in Madagascar, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. It cathedral archiepiscopal see is in Toliara (formerly Tuléar).

Ecclesiastical province

Its Suffragan sees are :

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 119,638 Catholics (11.8% of 1,014,000 total) on 43,570 km2 in 23 parishes and 1 mission with 63 priests (26 diocesan, 37 religious), 373 lay religious (68 brothers, 305 sisters) and 18 seminarians.

History

Bishops

Ordinaries

(all Roman rite)

Auxiliary Bishop

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