Much of the history of Algeria has taken place on the fertile coastal plain of North Africa, which is often called the Maghreb. North Africa served as a transit region for people moving towards Europe or the Middle East, thus, the region's inhabitants have been influenced by populations from other areas, including the Carthaginians, Romans, and Vandals. The region was conquered by the Muslims in the early 8th century AD, but broke off from the Umayyad Caliphate after the Berber Revolt of 740. During the Ottoman period, Algeria became an important state in the Mediterranean sea which led to many naval conflicts. The last significant events in the country's recent history have been the Algerian War and Algerian Civil War.
The Archdiocese of Québec is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Quebec, Canada. It is the oldest episcopal see in the New World north of Mexico and the primatial see of Canada. The Archdiocese of Quebec is also the metropolitan see of an ecclesiastical province with the suffragan dioceses of Chicoutimi, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and Trois-Rivières. The archdiocese's cathedral is Notre-Dame de Québec in Quebec City.
Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez is a Dominican cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and archbishop emeritus of Santo Domingo.
Jean-Pierre Ricard is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Bordeaux from 2001 to 2019. He has been a cardinal since 2006. He was previously Bishop of Montpellier for five years and before that an auxiliary bishop in Grenoble. From 2001 to 2007 he was president of the French Episcopal Conference.
The Archdiocese of Algiers is the metropolitan see for the ecclesiastical province of Algiers in Algeria.
Léon-Étienne Duval was a French prelate and cardinal. He served as Archbishop of Algiers from 1954 to 1988, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oran is a Roman Catholic diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Algiers in Algeria.
Giuseppe Bertello is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal since 2012, who was President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and President of the Governorate of Vatican City State from October 2011 to October 2021. He worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1971 to 2011; became an archbishop in 1987; held appointments as Nuncio to several countries, including Rwanda, Mexico, and Italy; and was the Holy See's representative to a number of international organizations.
Henri Antoine Marie Teissier was a French-Algerian Catholic Bishop of Algiers and Archbishop Emeritus of Algiers.
The Council of Cardinals, also known as the Council of Cardinal Advisers, is a group of cardinals of the Catholic Church appointed by Pope Francis to serve as his advisers. The council was formally established on 28 September 2013.
Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges is a retired French-Algerian Jesuit priest who served as the Archbishop of Algiers from 2016 to 2021.
Alphonse Georger is a French and Algerian Catholic bishop and an Emeritus Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oran in Algeria since December 2012.
Pierre-Lucien Claverie was a French Catholic prelate who was a professed member from the Order of Preachers and served as the Bishop of Oran from 1981 until his murder in 1996 by Islamic extremists.
Pope Francis has created cardinals at nine consistories held at roughly annual intervals beginning in 2014, most recently on 30 September 2023. He plans to create another 21 cardinals at a consistory scheduled for 7 December 2024. The cardinals created by Francis include 142 cardinals from 71 countries, 24 of which had never been represented in the College of Cardinals. His appointments include the first Scandinavian since the Reformation, the first from Goa since an episcopal see was established there in 1533, the first from Latin America's indigenous peoples, the first from India's Dalit class, and the first active head of a religious congregation.
Jean Zerbo is a Malian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Bamako from 1998 to 2024. Pope Francis raised him to the rank of cardinal on 28 June 2017. He is the first cardinal from Mali.
Gaston Marie Jacquier was a French prelate of the Catholic Church in Algeria. Originally from Évian-les-Bains, France, he moved to French Algeria and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Algiers. In 1960, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Algiers. He participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council. In 1976, he was assassinated with a knife on a street in Algiers.
The 19 martyrs of Algeria were a group of nineteen individuals slain in Algeria between 1994 and 1996 during the Algerian Civil War. They all were priests or professed religious belonging to religious congregations, including seven Trappist Cistercian monks; one was a bishop. Their nations of origin were France (15), French protectorate of Tunisia (1), Spain (2), and Belgium (1).
Jean-Marc Noël Aveline is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was named Archbishop of Marseille on 8 August 2019 after serving as an auxiliary bishop there since 2013 and been a cardinal since 2022.
Mykola Bychok is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic prelate who has served as Eparch of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne since 2020. Pope Francis plans to make him a cardinal on 7 December 2024. He is a member of the Redemptorists.
Davide Carraro was appointed Bishop of the Oran, Algeria, by Pope Francis on 22 October 2023.
