title: Jean-Samuel Raobelina
text: # Jean-Samuel Raobelina
  
  Jean-Samuel Raobelina, MS (27 June 1928 - 30. June 2001) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Tsiroanomandidy.
  
  ## Life
  
  Jean-Samuel Raobelina entered the Congregation of Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette and was ordained a priest on March 21, 1959.
  
  Pope Paul VI appointed him Bishop of Quilmes on April 27, 1978. The Archbishop of Antananarivo, Victor Cardinal Razafimahatratra, SJ, ordained him bishop on July 9 of the same year; Co-consecrators were Jean-Guy Rakodondravahatra MS, Bishop of Ihosy, and Francesco Vòllaro OSST, Bishop of Ambatondrazaka.
  
  