Archdiocese of Tunis

	Archdiocese of Tunis
Basic data
Country	Tunisia
Ecclesiastical province	Immediate
Diocesan bishop	Ilario Antoniazzi
surface	164,000 km²
Parishes	10 (2010 / AP2011 )
Residents	11,000,000 (2010 / AP2011 )
Catholics	21,000 (2010 / AP2011 )
proportion of	0.2%
Diocesan priest	11 (2010 / AP2011 )
Religious priest	21 (2010 / AP2011 )
Catholics per priest	656
Permanent deacons	1 (2010 / AP2011 )
Friars	27 (2010 / AP2011 )
Religious sisters	121 (2010 / AP2011 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Arabic , French and Italian are also widely used in the tourist areas
cathedral	Cathédrale St. Vincent de Paul
Website	eglisecatholiquetunisie.com

Cathedral of St. Vincent-de-Paul

The immediate Erzbistum Tunisia ( lat. : Archidioecesis tunetanus ) is an in Tunisia preferred Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Tunisia .

The Archdiocese was founded in 1843 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Tunis and was raised to the Archdiocese of Carthage on November 10, 1884 under the name of the Apostolic Vicariate of Carthage . On July 9, 1964, the archbishopric was converted into the territorial prelature of Tunis , on May 31, 1995, to a diocese and on May 22, 2010 again to the archbishopric.

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic

1844–1881 Fidèle Sutter OFMCap
1884 Spiridion-Salvatore-Costantino Buhadgiar , titular bishop of Ruspae

Archbishops, Bishops and Prelates

1884-1892 Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie
1893–1922 Barthélemy Clément Combes
1922–1939 Alexis Lemaître MAfr , coadjutor since 1920

1939–1953 Charles-Albert Gounot CM , coadjutor since 1937

1953–1965 Paul-Marie-Maurice Perrin

1965–1990 Michel Callens MAfr, Titular Archbishop of Moxori

1992–2005 Fouad Twal , since 1995 personal title Archbishop

2005–2012 Maroun Lahham

since 2013 Ilario Antoniazzi

Auxiliary bishops

1887-1892 Félix-Jules-Xavier Jourdan de la Passardière CO
1891–1896 Jules-Etienne Gazaniol , titular bishop of Thuburbo Maius
1892–1924 Jean-Joseph Tournier , titular bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus
1892–1930 Spiridion Poloméni , titular bishop of Ruspae
1930–1937 Jean Saint-Pierre , titular bishop of Gordus
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1947–1953 Paul-Marie-Maurice Perrin , titular bishop of Utica

statistics

year	population			priest				Permanent deacons	Religious		Parishes
year	Catholics	Residents	%	Total number	Diocesan priest	Religious priest	Catholics per priest	Permanent deacons	male	Female	Parishes
1949	280,000	3,230,950	8.7	170	80	90	1,647		80	500	238
1959	70,000	3,800,000	1.8	179	88	91	391		115	547	78
1970	35,000	4,960,000	0.7	83	37	46	421		71	410	21st
1977	18,000	5,870,000	0.3	61	26th	35	295	1	52	250	24
1988	15,500	7,300,000	0.2	48	19th	29	322		38	198	15th
1999	22,000	9,200,000	0.2	35	13	22nd	628		33	168	13
2000	22,000	9,200,000	0.2	43	13	30th	511		39	160	13
2001	22,000	9,500,000	0.2	33	12	21st	666		28	165	12
2002	22,000	10,000,000	0.2	28	11	17th	785		24	153	12
2003	20,000	9,673,600	0.2	28	11	17th	714		22nd	139	12
2004	20,000	9,700,000	0.2	34	13	21st	588		25th	139	11
2007	20,100	10,030,000	0.2	35	15th	20th	574		28	126	10
2010	21,000	11,000,000	0.2	32	11	21st	656	1	27	121	10

Web links

Entry on Archdiocese of Tunis on catholic-hierarchy.org
Entry on gcatholic.org (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Elevazione della Diocese of Tunis (Tunisia) ad Arcidiocesi ( Italian ) Holy See Press Office. May 22, 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2010.

[1] Elevazione della Diocese of Tunis (Tunisia) ad Arcidiocesi ( Italian ) Holy See Press Office. May 22, 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2010.