Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Algiers


The Archdiocese of Algiers is the metropolitan see for the ecclesiastical province of Algiers in Algeria.

History

La Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger 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 Ketchaoua Mosque in 1845, but was reconverted to the Ketchaoua Mosque in 1962. There is also 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

  24. Antoine-Adolphe Dupuch
  25. Louis-Antoine-Augustin Pavy

    Archbishops of Algiers

  26. Charles Lavigerie, elevated to Cardinal in 1882
  27. Prosper Auguste Dusserre
  28. Fédéric-Henri Oury
  29. Barthélemy Clément Combes
  30. Auguste-Fernand Leynaud
  31. Léon-Étienne Duval, elevated to Cardinal in 1965
  32. Henri Antoine Marie Teissier
  33. Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader, appointed nuncio and titular Archbishop
  34. Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges, SJ

    Coadjutor archbishops

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