Archdiocese of Toliara

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ARCHDIOCESE OF TOLIARA

Denomination : Roman Catholic

Established : 1957 as the diocese of Tuléar, named changed to Toliara in 1989. Elevated to Archdiocese in 2003.

Arms (crest) of Archdiocese of Toliara

Official blazon

Origin/meaning

Michael Francis McCarthy in his Armoria Sedium gives the blazon of the Archdiocesean (Toliar was then a Diocese) Arms as: "Argent, on a mount vert charged with a barrulet argent, a water buffalo trippant proper between in sinister a fleur-de-lis gules and supporting a stave gules, counterchanged on a chief azure to argent, a banner argent, a cross gules".