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History

* August 10, 1838: Established as Diocese of Algiers from Diocese of Islas Canarias in

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* 1838: United with Diocese of Iulia Caesarea * July 25, 1866: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Algiers

Special churches

La Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger (Sacred Heart Cathedral of Algiers) a concrete Modernist church, was built in 1956. It became a cathedral in 1962, replacing the French colonial Cathedral of St. Philip of Algiers when that 1612 building was reconverted to the Ketchaoua Mosque. The Cathedral of St. Philip of Algiers was established by converting the

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in 1845, but was reconverted to the Ketchaoua Mosque in 1962. There is also a Minor Basilica at the Basilique de

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in Algiers.

Bishops

Apostolic Vicars of Algiers

# Philippe le Vacher, CM (1651 – 17 July 1662) #

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, CM (1662 – April 1663) #

Jean Le Vacher Jean Le Vacher (15 March 1619 – 26 July 1683) was a French Lazarist missionary and consul in Tunis and Algiers. He was killed by being attached to an Algerian cannon loaded with shrapnel that was fired when the French fleet bombarded A ...

, CM (23 May 1668 – 29 July 1683) # Michel de Montmasson, CM (8 January 1685 – 5 July 1688) # José Gianola, O.SS.T (1690–1693) #

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, CM (September 1693 – 11 March 1705) #

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, CM (1705 – December 1736) #

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, CM (22 July 1740 – 1 June 1741) # Charles-Marie-Gabriel Poirier du Burgh, CM (June 1741 – July 1743) #

, CM (July 1743 – 3 August 1746) # Arnoult Bossu, CM (3 August 1746 – 1757) #

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, CM (April 1765 – 1772) #

, CM (1772 – April 1773) # Pierre François Viguier, CM (April 1773 – 28 May 1778) # Charles Cosson, CM (20 October 1778 – 11 February 1782) # Michel Ferrand, CM (20 March 1782 – 2 May 1784) # Jean-Alasia Erat, CM (20 January 1785 – 5 April 1798) # Jean-Claude Vicherat, CM (1798–1802) # Jean-François Chossat, CM (March 1823 – June 1825) # Jean-Louis Solignac, CM (1825–1827)

Bishops of Algiers

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

Archbishops of Algiers

Charles Lavigerie Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie (31 October 1825 – 26 November 1892) was a French cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunis, archbishop of Carthage and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Algiers, Algiers and primate of A ...

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

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(26 November 1892 – 30 December 1897) # Fédéric-Henri Oury (28 November 1898 – 15 December 1907) #

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(22 January 1909 – 2 January 1917) # Auguste-Fernand Leynaud (2 January 1917 – 5 August 1953) # Léon-Étienne Duval (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 (24 May 2008 – 23 May 2015), appointed nuncio and titular Archbishop # Paul Desfarges, SJ (24 December 2016 – 27 December 2021) # Jean-Paul Vesco (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) * Alexandre Piquemal (26 February 1909 – 4 June 1920) * Paul Pierre Pinier (13 December 1947 – 27 March 1954), appointed Bishop of Constantine (-Hippone) * Gaston Marie Jacquier (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 * Alphonse Émile Georger (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)

Suffragan dioceses

* Diocese of Constantine * Diocese of Oran

References

Sources

GCatholic.org

External links

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