Roman Catholic Diocese of Constantine
Diocese of Constantine Dioecesis Constantinianus | |
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Location | |
Country | Algeria |
Ecclesiastical province | Alger |
Metropolitan | Constantine |
Statistics | |
Area | 110,522 km2 (42,673 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members) | (as of 2013) 12,643,000 1,000 (0.0%) |
Information | |
Rite | Roman |
Established | 25 July 1866 |
Cathedral | , Constantine |
Secular priests | 16 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Nicolas Lhernould (elect) |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges |
Website | |
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Constantine (Latin: Dioecesis Constantinianus, French: Diocèse de Constantine) is a Roman Catholic diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Algiers in Algeria.
History[]
25 July 1866: Established as Diocese of Constantine from the Diocese of Algiers.
United titles[]
(since 1867.09.23)
Special churches[]
The seat of the bishop is the Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Sept-Douleurs in Constantine. There is a minor basilica at the Basilique Saint Augustin in Annaba (Hippo).
Ordinaries[]
Bishops of Constantine[]
- (12 January 1867 – 29 August 1870 )
- (27 February 1872 – 15 July 1878 ), appointed Bishop of Marseille, France
- (31 July 1878 – 27 February 1880 )
- (27 February 1880 - 29 September 1880 ), died without being consecrated
- (17 February 1881 – 15 June 1893 ), appointed Archbishop of Carthage
- Ludovic-Henri-Marie-Ixile Julien-Laferrière (29 January 1894 – 12 August 1896 )
- (13 October 1896 – 22 May 1913 )
- (26 May 1913 – 10 September 1916 )
- (2 January 1917 – 3 October 1923 )
- (24 March 1924 – 26 October 1945 )
- Léon-Étienne Duval (3 November 1946 – 3 February 1954 ), appointed Archbishop of Algiers (Cardinal in 1965)
- (27 March 1954 – 31 January 1970 )
- (19 August 1970 – 25 March 1983 )
- Gabriel Piroird, (25 March 1983 – 21 November 2008 )
- Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges, S.J. (21 November 2008 - 24 December 2016 ), appointed Archbishop of Algiers
- Nicolas Lhernould (9 December 2019 – present)
Sources[]
External links[]
Wikisource has the text of a 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article about Diocese of Constantine. |
Wikisource has the text of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article Constantine (Cirta). |
Categories:
- Roman Catholic dioceses in Algeria
- Religious organizations established in 1866
- Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century
- Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Alger
- 1866 establishments in Algeria
- Roman Catholic bishops of Constantine