Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:Algeria
See a list of abbreviations used in this list. See also our listing of current ecclesial jurisdictions.
This list does not yet include dioceses from pre-Islamic times in what is today Algeria. Claes.Tande@katolsk.no |
- 290-343
- Barcelona - Spain
- 713
- Barcelona (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 850
- Barcelona (restored) - Spain
- 1204
- Constantinople (Latin Patriarchate from now, de facto established by the Pope through Venice) - (Latin Empire of Constantinople) Turkey
- 1237
- Mallorca (reestablished, detached from Barcelona) - Spain
- 1351
- Insulas Fortunatis / Islas Canarias (erected by monks out of Mallorca) - Spain
- 1354
- Islas Canarias (vacant/abandoned) - Spain
- 1369
- Telde / Islas Canarias (revived) - Spain
- 1393
- Islas Canarias (abandoned) - Spain
- 1404
- Rubicon / Islas Canarias (revived) - Spain
- 1485
- Las Palmas (new name, previously Rubicon) - Spain
- 1742
- Constantinople (AV, supplanting the Latin Patriarchal Vicars / suffragan Bishops) - (Ottoman Empire) Turkey
- 1762
- Aleppo (AV, detached from Constantinople AV) - (Ottoman Empire) Syria, Lebanon, etc.
- 1818
- Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus (AV, new name, previously Aleppo AV; see in Beirut) - (Ottoman Empire) Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, Arabian Peninsula
- 1839
- Egypt and Arabia (AV, detached from detached from the AV of Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus) - Egypt, Sudan, Abyssinia, Arabian Peninsula
- 1846
- Sudan / Central Africa (AV, detached from Egypt and Arabia) - Sudan, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, etc.
- 1868
- Sahara and the Sudan (AP, detached/established from Sudan / Central Africa) - Various parts of French North and West Africa
- 1891
- Sahara and the Sudan (AV) - Various parts of French North and West Africa
- 1838
- Alger / Iulia Caesarea (detached from Las Palmas) - Algeria
- 1866
- Alger (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Aix) - Algeria
- 1866
- Constantine (detached from Alger) - Algeria
- 1866
- Oran (detached from Alger) - Algeria
- 1901
- Ghardaia (AP, detached from Sahara and the Sudan AV) - Algeria and various parts of French North and West Africa
- 1921
- Ghardaia in the Sahara (new name, previously Ghardaia) - Algeria
- 1948
- Ghardaia in the Sahara (AV) - Algeria
- 1955
- Laghouat (D, and new name, previously Ghardaia in the Sahara AV) - Algeria