Diocese of Oran

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Diocese of Oran
Map of the Bishopric of Oran
Basic data
Country Algeria
Ecclesiastical province Algiers
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Algiers
Diocesan bishop Jean-Paul Vesco OP
Emeritus diocesan bishop Alphonse Georger
founding 1866
surface 77,353 km²
Parishes 6 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 9,206,318 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 1,500 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 0%
Diocesan priest 5 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 6 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 136
Friars 16 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 41 (2016 / AP 2017 )
cathedral Cathédrale Sainte-Marie
address 2 Rue Saad Ben Rebbi
31007 Oran El Maqqari
Algerie
Website eglise-catholique-algerie.org
Sainte-Marie Cathedral in Oran

The in Algeria located Diocese of Oran ( Latin Dioecesis Oranensis , French Diocèse d'Oran ) was established on 25 July 1866 and is based in Oran El Maqqari. It belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Algiers .

history

The 77,353 km² diocese had 355,000 believers in 1950, 10,000 in 1980 and 7,000 in 1990. Today there are only 400 Catholics left , with a population of 7,500,000 in this region. With 7 diocesan priests (in 1950 there were 103), 12 religious priests and 51 religious sisters (1950 there were 390), in 7 parishes (1950 there were 102), the number of religious members has decreased significantly for decades. The departure of the French occupation led to a profound restructuring in the diocese , as in the other dioceses in Algeria. It is not without interest that most of the bishops were always diocesan priests.

On August 1, 1996, the then Bishop of Oran Pierre Claverie was murdered at the entrance to his episcopal church. The attack caused concern, sadness and indignation around the world. Claverie is considered one of the great pioneers of the Christian-Islamic dialogue . The bishop had previously attended a memorial event for the seven monks in May 1996 with the then French Foreign Minister Hervé de Charette in the Trappist monastery of Tibhirine , who were first abducted and then brutally beheaded in May 1996 under circumstances that have not yet been clarified . The Roman Catholic Church in Algeria has initiated a process of beatification for the seven monks of Tibhirine and for twelve other religious who were murdered in the Algerian civil war .

To date, that's Monastery Tibhirine orphaned. A group of friends takes care of the house and grounds. The Trappist General Chapter decided in 1996 to maintain a community in Algeria. In response to a survey, eleven volunteers volunteered, six of whom were to be sent to Tibhirine. In the Holy Year 2000 celebrated Trappist from the convents in Fez and Algiers, the KAR and Easter in Tibhirne. During this period, violent attacks increased in the Medea area . A continuation of the monastic life on site seems too risky at the moment.

Parishes

There are parishes in Oran , Muaskar , Mostaganem , Sidi Bel Abbés , Tiaret and Tlemcen , and chapels in Hennaya and Ghazaouet .

Bishops

  • Jean-Baptiste-Irénée Callot (1867–1875)
  • Louis-Joseph-Marie-Ange Vigne (1876–1880)
  • Pierre-Marie-Etienne-Gustave Ardin (1880–1884)
  • Noël-Mathieu-Victor-Marie Gaussail (1884–1886)
  • Géraud-Marie Soubrier (1886–1898)
  • Édouard-Adolphe Cantel (1898–1910)
  • Pierre-Firmin Capmartin (1911-1914)
  • Christophe-Louis Légasse (1915–1920)
  • Léon-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Durand (1920–1945)
  • Bertrand Lacaste (1945–1972)
  • Henri Teissier (1972–1980)
  • Pierre Claverie OP (1981–1996)
  • Alphonse Georger (1998-2012)
  • Jean-Paul Vesco OP (since 2012)

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vatican Radio : Algeria: 10th anniversary of the murder of Bishop Claverie ( memento of September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of August 11, 2006
  2. ↑ ZENIT : French religious commemorate the Trappists who were murdered in Algeria in 1996 on November 9, 2006
  3. ↑ Le diocèse
  4. ↑ Information pratiques

Web links

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