Archdiocese of Algiers


The Archdiocese of Algiers is the metropolitan see for the ecclesiastical province of Algiers in Algeria.
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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 Roman [Catholic Diocese of Iulia Caesarea|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 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
  2. Benjamin Huguier, CM
  3. Jean Le Vacher, CM
  4. Michel de Montmasson, CM
  5. José Gianola, O.SS.T
  6. Yves Laurence, CM
  7. Lambert Duchêne, CM
  8. Pierre Favoux, CM
  9. Adrien Poissant, CM
  10. Charles-Marie-Gabriel Poirier du Burgh, CM
  11. Adrien Poissant, CM
  12. Arnoult Bossu, CM
  13. Théodore Groiselle, CM
  14. Charles la Pie de Savigny, CM
  15. Philippe Joseph Le Roy, CM
  16. Charles la Pie de Savigny, CM
  17. Pierre François Viguier, CM
  18. Charles Cosson, CM
  19. Michel Ferrand, CM
  20. Jean-Alasia Erat, CM
  21. Jean-Claude Vicherat, CM
  22. Jean-François Chossat, CM
  23. Jean-Louis Solignac, CM

Bishops of Algiers

  1. Antoine-Adolphe Dupuch
  2. Louis-Antoine-Augustin Pavy

Archbishops of Algiers

  1. Charles Lavigerie, elevated to Cardinal in 1882
  2. Prosper Auguste Dusserre
  3. Fédéric-Henri Oury
  4. Barthélemy Clément Combes
  5. Auguste-Fernand Leynaud
  6. Léon-Étienne Duval, elevated to Cardinal in 1965
  7. Henri Antoine Marie Teissier
  8. Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader, appointed nuncio and titular Archbishop
  9. Paul Desfarges, SJ
  10. Jean-Paul Vesco

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.