Algiers (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Georges Goyau · 1913
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Description
Algiers, ancient Icosium, is an archdiocese covering Algeria province in French Africa, with Oran and Constantine as suffragans. Missions rose in 1632, and an apostolic vicar soon followed. Late in the seventeenth century he oversaw Tunis's pro-vicar and Tripoli's prefect. The second-century Icosium see died under the Arabic conquest and revived in 1838 as Aix's suffragan. Dupuch was its first bishop until 1845, Pavy served from 1846 to 1866, and Lavigerie became its first archbishop in 1867.
The church honours Mercedarian confessors, including thirteenth-century Peter Armengaud at Algiers, and venerates Raymond Lully, dead at Bougie in 1325, and Geronimo, buried alive at Algiers in 1569. At the end of 1905 the diocese counted 230,843 European-born inhabitants besides the army, 8 first-class and 101 second-class parishes, 25 vicariates, and 24 auxiliary priests.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Georges Goyau |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |