Roman Catholic Church in Algeria

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The Roman Catholic Church in Algeria is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church .

history

The diocese of Algiers was founded in 1838 with the conquest of Algeria by French colonial troops by Pope Gregory XVI. set up. At the beginning of the 20th century, the number of Catholics in Algeria was estimated at around one million.

In 2002 the UN counted a maximum of 10,000 Catholics in the country. After the appeal by the Algerian authorities in May 2007 that all Catholics should leave Algeria and a protest note from the Bishops' Conference , the Center social du Corso , run by the Catholic Church in the capital, Algiers, was closed. In 2008 the number of Catholics was estimated at only 3,000.

present

The ordinance No. 06-08 of February 28, 2006, which came into force on March 20, 2006, considerably restricted freedom of religion in Algeria. It prohibits Christians from practicing or proclaiming their faith outside the officially recognized Christian communities under the threat of fines and imprisonment (up to five years).

The Catholic Church in Algeria is a member of the Conference Episcopale Régionale du Nord de l'Afrique (CERNA) within the Symposium of the Bishops' Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECEAM) .

The last apostolic nuncio in Algeria was the Italian Archbishop Luciano Russo until 2020 .

Dioceses

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Country Report Algeria" , Church in Need , June 22, 2009
  2. ^ "Algeria: Facts - Figures - Links" ( Memento of January 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Network Africa, accessed on July 10, 2009
  3. ↑ Hans Vöcking : Algeria (= country reports religious freedom, Volume 12), ISSN  2193-4339 . Missio, Aachen 2013, p. 21.

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