Algeria
Algeria
Northern Africa country bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Morocco and Tunisia. Socialist republic based on French and Islamic law. The country is 99% Sunni Muslim, the official state religion, with the remainder being Christian or Jewish. With of a population of over 32 million, there are around 5,000 Catholics.
Ecclesiastically the country is governed by the archdiocese of
Alger
and the dioceses of
Constantine-Hippone
Laghouat
Oran
See also,
World Fact Book
Catholic-Hierarchy.Org
patron saints index : Algeria
patron saints index : Oran, Algeria
New Catholic Dictionary
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Algeria
a country of Northern Africa, which forms now (since 1830) a French possession. Its area is about 150,000 square miles; population, in 1889, 3,960,000, most of whom are Mohammedans. The European population. in 1832, was only 5919 souls; in 1856, 155,607, among whom were 86,969 French, and 42,569 Spaniards; in 1881, it was 401,550 souls. Among the Europeans were, in 1857, about 10,000 Protestants, with eleven clergymen. The rest are mostly Roman Catholics, who have one bishopric at Algiers. There are several convents, among which a large agricultural and educational institution of the Trappists is celebrated. There were, in 1885, 178 boys’ and 119 girls’ schools, with 10,672 boys and 8986 girls. Four towns had Arabic-French schools, with 400 scholars. An Association of St. Louis was formed in 1859 for the civilization of the Mohammedans, and had commenced the publication of an Arabic paper, Birgys Barys (the Eagle of Paris). Schem’s Ecclesiastical Year-book; Behaghel, L’Algerie (Par. 1865). SEE AFRICA.