Paul Desfarges

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Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges

Archbishop Emeritus of Algiers
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Desfarges in 2021
Church Roman Catholic Church
ArchdioceseAlgiers
SeeAlgiers
Appointed24 December 2016
Installed10 February 2017
Term ended27 December 2021
Predecessor Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader
Successor Jean-Paul Vesco
Other post(s) President of the North African Regional Episcopal Conference (2015-)
Orders
Ordination14 June 1975
Consecration12 February 2009
by Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader
RankArchbishop
Personal details
Born
Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges

(1944-05-07) 7 May 1944 (age 79)
Previous post(s)
MottoTa volonté soit faite ("Your will be done")

Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges (born 7 May 1944) is a retired French-Algerian Jesuit priest who served as the Archbishop of Algiers from 2016 to 2021.

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Career

Desfarges arrived in Algeria in 1965 for military service. He taught as a civilian in a White Fathers school in Ghardaia.

Returning to France, he decided to become a Jesuit and joined the novitiate on 14 October 1967. After his vows as religious, and theological studies, he was ordained a priest on 14 June 1975. He made his solemn profession on 30 April 1981.

Desfarges then spent nearly 30 years in Constantine, where, among other subjects, he taught psychology at the university from 1976 to 2006. In 1982, he obtained Algerian citizenship.

Beginning in 2006, he headed the spiritual center Ben Smen to Algiers, while the upper Algiers Jesuit community.

Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Bishop of Constantine and Hippo on 21 November 2008. [1] He succeeded Bishop Gabriel Piroird, who retired for reasons of age. Desfarges was consecrated on 12 February 2009 and installed as the bishop of Constantine eight days later.

On 24 December 2016 Pope Francis named Desfarges the Archbishop of Algiers. He submitted his resignation when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 and his resignation was accepted by Francis 27 December 2021. [2]

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References

  1. Eglise Catholique de france: "Mgr Paul Desfarges" retrieved November 5, 2015
  2. "Rinunce e Nomine, 01.12.2012" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 1 December 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2021.