The Archdiocese of Algiers (, ) is the

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Algiers Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without having its own separate governing body. With 2,988,145 residents in 2008Census 14 April 2008: Offi ...

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History

The diocese was established on 10 August 1838 as the Diocese of Algiers from Diocese of Islas Canarias in

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. 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

Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger (''Sacred Heart Cathedral of Algiers'') is a Roman Catholic church architecture, church located in Algiers, Algeria. Completed in 1956, it became the new cathedral in the capital after the Cathedral of Saint Phi ...

(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 The Ketchaoua Mosque (), also known as Djamaa Ketchaoua, is a mosque in the city of Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It was built during Ottoman period in the 17th century and is located at the foot of the Casbah of Algiers, a UNESCO World Herit ...

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 Basilique Notre Dame d'Afrique ( English: “Basilica of Our Lady of Africa”) is a Catholic basilica in Algiers, Algeria. It is the origin of the modern Catholic devotion to Our Lady of Africa. Pope Pius IX granted two Pontifical decrees towa ...

in Algiers.

Bishops

Apostolic Vicars of Algiers

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Jean Le Vacher Jean Le Vacher (15 March 1619 – 26 July 1683) was a French Congregation of the Mission, Lazarist missionary and consul in Tunis and Algiers. He was killed by being blowing from a gun, attached to an Algerian cannon loaded with shrapnel th ...

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Bishops of Algiers

Antoine-Adolphe Dupuch Antoine-Louis-Adolphe Dupuch (1800-1856) was a French Catholic priest who served as the first Bishop of Algiers from 1838 to 1845. He attempted to evangelise the local Arab population and built nearly 60 new churches in Algeria. Early life Antoi ...

(13 September 1838 – 9 December 1845) #

Louis-Antoine-Augustin Pavy Louis-Antoine-Augustin Pavy (1805–1866) was a French Catholic prelate who served as the second Bishop of Algiers from 1846 to 1866. He attempted to convert the Arabs to Catholicism. He denounced socialism, rampant among French colonists, as th ...

(16 April 1846 – 16 November 1866)

Archbishops of Algiers

Charles Lavigerie Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie, M. Afr. (31 October 1825 – 26 November 1892) was a French Catholic prelate and missionary who served as Archbishop of Carthage and Primate of Africa from 1884 to 1892. He previously served as Archbishop o ...

(27 March 1867 – 25 November 1892), elevated to Cardinal in 1882 #

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(22 January 1909 – 2 January 1917) # Auguste-Fernand Leynaud (2 January 1917 – 5 August 1953) #

Léon-Étienne Duval Léon-Étienne Duval (9 November 1903 – 30 May 1996) was a French prelate and cardinal. He served as Archbishop of Algiers from 1954 to 1988, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965. Biography Léon-Étienne Duval was born in Chênex ...

(3 February 1954 – 19 April 1988), elevated to Cardinal in 1965 # Henri Antoine Marie Teissier (19 April 1988 – 24 May 2008) #

Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader (Arabic: غالب موسى عبد الله بدر; born 22 July 1951) is a Jordanian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the apostolic nuncio to the Dominican Republic and apostolic delegate to Puerto Rico ...

(24 May 2008 – 23 May 2015), appointed nuncio and titular Archbishop #

Paul Desfarges Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges (born 7 May 1944) is a retired French-Algerian Society of Jesus, Jesuit priest who served as the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Algiers, Archbishop of Algiers from 2016 to 2021. Career Desfarges arrived in Algeria in ...

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Jean-Paul Vesco Jean-Paul Vesco, OP (; born 10 March 1962) is a Franco-Algerian cardinal of the Catholic Church who serves as the Archbishop of Algiers. He has spent most of his clerical career in Algeria and was Bishop of Oran from 2012 to 2021. He is a membe ...

(27 December 2021 – present)

Coadjutor archbishops

(1880–1892) * Henri Antoine Marie Teissier (1980–1988)

Auxiliary bishops

* Pierre-Jean-Joseph Soubiranne (22 December 1871 – 27 February 1880), appointed Bishop of Belley, France * Salvator-Alexandre-Félix-Carmel Brincat (28 June 1889 – 1903) *

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(26 February 1909 – 4 June 1920) *

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(13 December 1947 – 27 March 1954), appointed Bishop of Constantine (-Hippone) *

Gaston Marie Jacquier Gaston Marie Jacquier (23 February 1904 – 8 July 1976) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church in Algeria. Originally from Évian-les-Bains, France, he moved to French Algeria and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Algiers. In 196 ...

(4 December 1960 – 8 July 1976)

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. *

Victor-Félix Bernadou Victor-Félix Bernadou (25 June 1816 – 15 November 1891) was a French Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens, Archbishop of Sens. Biography Born in Castres, he was Holy Orders, ordained to the priesth ...

(priest: 19 December 1840 – 7 April 1862), appointed Bishop of Gap, France; future Cardinal *

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(priest: 29 June 1965 – 10 July 1998), appointed Bishop of Oran * Henri Antoine Marie Teissier (priest: 24 March 1955 – 30 November 1972)), appointed Bishop of Oran (later returned here as Coadjutor)

References

Sources

GCatholic.org

External links

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