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Archdiocese of Algiers

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Archdiocese of Algiers
Archidioecesis Algeriensis
Archidiocèse de Alger
Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger
Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger
Location
Country Algeria
Ecclesiastical province Algiers
Metropolitan Algiers
Statistics
Area 54,900 km2 (21,200 sq mi)
Population
Total
Catholics 		(as of 2022)
12,470,000
4,000 (0.0%)
Parishes 9
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman
Established August 10, 1838
Cathedral Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger, Algiers
Secular priests 9 (Diocesan)
26 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco
Archbishop of Algiers
Metropolitan Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco
Suffragans Diocese of Constantine
Diocese of Oran
Map
Website

The Archdiocese of Algiers (Latin: Archidioecesis Algeriensis, French: Archidiocèse de Alger) is the metropolitan see for the ecclesiastical province of Algiers in Algeria.

History

The diocese was established on 10 August 1838 as the Diocese of Algiers from Diocese of Islas Canarias in Spain. Later that same year, it united with the Diocese of Iulia Caesarea.

It was promoted to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Algiers on 25 July 1866.

Special churches

La Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger (Sacred Heart Cathedral of Algiers) is the current cathedral of the archdiocese. It is a concrete Modernist church that was built in 1956. It became a cathedral in 1962.

The previous cathedral was the French colonial Cathedral of St. Philip of Algiers. The Cathedral of St. Philip of Algiers was established by converting the Ketchaoua Mosque in 1845, but was reconverted to the Ketchaoua Mosque in 1962.

The diocese also has a Minor Basilica at the Basilique de Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algiers.

Bishops

Apostolic Vicars of Algiers

  1. Philippe le Vacher, CM (1651 – 17 July 1662)
  2. Benjamin Huguier, CM (1662 – April 1663)
  3. Jean Le Vacher, CM (23 May 1668 – 29 July 1683)
  4. Michel de Montmasson, CM (8 January 1685 – 5 July 1688)
  5. José Gianola, O.SS.T (1690–1693)
  6. Yves Laurence, CM (September 1693 – 11 March 1705)
  7. Lambert Duchêne, CM (1705 – December 1736)
  8. Pierre Favoux, CM (1737 – 15 July 1740)
  9. Adrien Poissant, CM (22 July 1740 – 1 June 1741)
  10. Charles-Marie-Gabriel Poirier du Burgh, CM (June 1741 – July 1743)
  11. Adrien Poissant, CM (July 1743 – 3 August 1746)
  12. Arnoult Bossu, CM (3 August 1746 – 1757)
  13. Théodore Groiselle, CM (30 November 1757 – 5 September 1763)
  14. Charles la Pie de Savigny, CM (5 September 1763 – April 1765)
  15. Philippe Joseph Le Roy, CM (April 1765 – 1772)
  16. Charles la Pie de Savigny, CM (1772 – April 1773)
  17. Pierre François Viguier, CM (April 1773 – 28 May 1778)
  18. Charles Cosson, CM (20 October 1778 – 11 February 1782)
  19. Michel Ferrand, CM (20 March 1782 – 2 May 1784)
  20. Jean-Alasia Erat, CM (20 January 1785 – 5 April 1798)
  21. Jean-Claude Vicherat, CM (1798–1802)
  22. Jean-François Chossat, CM (March 1823 – June 1825)
  23. Jean-Louis Solignac, CM (1825–1827)

Bishops of Algiers

  1. Antoine-Adolphe Dupuch (13 September 1838 – 9 December 1845)
  2. Louis-Antoine-Augustin Pavy (16 April 1846 – 16 November 1866)

Archbishops of Algiers

  1. Charles Lavigerie (27 March 1867 – 25 November 1892), elevated to Cardinal in 1882
  2. Prosper Auguste Dusserre (26 November 1892 – 30 December 1897)
  3. Fédéric-Henri Oury (28 November 1898 – 15 December 1907)
  4. Barthélemy Clément Combes (22 January 1909 – 2 January 1917)
  5. Auguste-Fernand Leynaud (2 January 1917 – 5 August 1953)
  6. Léon-Étienne Duval (3 February 1954 – 19 April 1988), elevated to Cardinal in 1965
  7. Henri Antoine Marie Teissier (19 April 1988 – 24 May 2008)
  8. Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader (24 May 2008 – 23 May 2015), appointed nuncio and titular Archbishop
  9. Paul Desfarges, SJ (24 December 2016 – 27 December 2021)[1]
  10. Jean-Paul Vesco (27 December 2021[1] – present)

Coadjutor archbishops

Auxiliary bishops

Other bishops who were priests of the diocese

This list contains men, living and deceased, who were priests of this diocese before becoming bishops elsewhere.

See also

Canonical status and jurisdiction

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alger is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church.[2]

From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Archdiocese of Algiers (Icosium), The Archdiocese of, comprises the province of Algérie in French Africa. Its suffragans are the Sees of Oran and Constantine. In 1632, several missions were established in Algeria; soon after, an apostolic-vicar was installed there, who, towards the end of the seventeenth century had under him the pro-vicar of Tunis and the prefect of Tripoli. The episcopal See of Algiers, founded in the second century at Icosium did not survive the Arabic conquest. It was re-established in 1838 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Aix. Mgr. Antoine Adolph Dupuch (d. 1856) was its first bishop until 1845, when he resigned and was succeeded by Mgr. Antoine Pavy (1846–66). On the death of the latter, Algiers become an archdiocese, with two newly-created sees (1867), Oran and Constantine, for suffragans. Mgr. Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie, Bishop of Nancy, become its first archbishop (d. 1893). The church of Algiers honours in a special manner the memory of several holy confessors of the Order of Our Lady of Mercy for the Redemption of Captives founded in 1232 by St. Peter Nolasco. Among them are St. Peter Armengaud (thirteenth century), confessor at Algiers. It cherishes also a particular veneration for the memories of Blessed Raymond Lully who died at Bougie in 1325, and the Venerable Geronimo, buried alive at Algiers in 1569. The Diocese of Algiers contained (end of 1905), 220,843 inhabitants of European birth (exclusive of the army), 8 first-class; 101 second-class parishes and 25 vicariates, formerly with State subventions. There were also 24 auxiliary priests.

Dupuch, Fastes de l'Afrique chrêtienne (Bordeaux, 1849); Grussenmeyer, Vingt-cinq années d'épiscopat en France, et en Afrique: documents biographiques sur le Cardinal Lavigerie (Algiers, 1888); Chevalier, Topo-bibl. (Paris, 1894–99), 52.

Georges Goyau.

References

  1. Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 "Rinunce e Nomine, 01.12.2012" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 1 December 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  2. Back to citation Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alger, official website

Bibliography

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