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Mar 13, 2019 · By the 20th century, Algeria was no mere colony; it was an integral part of metropolitan France, making Algiers in some ways as much a French city as Rouen or Marseille. European settlers, mainly Catholics, flooded into the land, so that by the 1950s they made up a million of Algeria’s 11 million people.
Sep 27, 2010 · Q: The former Archbishop of Algiers, Henri Teissier, said he has “witnessed the slow death of the Church." Eid: The presence of the Catholic Church in Algeria cannot be circumscribed to numbers because the impact upon the society is tremendous. For instance, the care the Church offers to the handicapped and old people.
By 2000 the Catholic population had been reduced to approximately 20,000 (one source put it at 3,000), only a fifth of their number 40 years earlier. Catholics formed communities around larger churches in the cities of Oran, Constantine, and Algiers for reasons of safety, abandoning some of the 37 parishes that remained in the country.
In 2020, Catholics made up 0.01-0.02% of the country's population; [21] [22] there were 62 priests and 116 nuns serving across 30 parishes. In 2022, the Catholic Church noted that they were able to carry out religious services and prison visits without interference from the authorities.
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. Notre Dame d’Afrique is on the north side of Algiers, on a 124 m (407 ft) cliff overlooking the Bay of Algiers.
The episcopal See of Algiers, founded in the second century at Icosium did not survive the Arabic conquest. It was re-established in 1838 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Aix. Mgr. Antoine* Adolph Dupuch (d. 1856) was its first bishop until 1845, when he resigned and was succeeded by Mgr. Antoine* Pavy (1846-66).
Dec 9, 2018 · Many Muslims participated in the beatification ceremony, which aroused a lot of joy and emotion for Archbishop Paul Desfarges of Algiers and many others present. They saw in the beatification and solidarity of the Muslims, the fruit of intense efforts by the Church of Algeria and the local population.
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