 The Archbishop is Odon Marie Arsène Razanakolona a, the Auxiliary Bishop Jean-Pascal Randriantsoavina.The archdiocese was, for many years, one of the bases for the spreading of Catholicism in Madagascar and the surrounding British and especially French Indian Ocean territories like Réunion, Comoros and others, which now form an Indian Ocean Episcopal Conference.As per 2014 it pastorally served 957,000 Catholics (27.0% of 3,550,000 total) on 12,500 km² in 77 parishes and 22 missions with 356 priests (160 diocesan, 196 religious), 2,333 lay religious (568 brothers, 1,765 sisters) and 131 seminarians.