Roman Catholic Diocese of Oran

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The current diocese of Oran was created on 25 July 1866, with the diocese of Constantine, by dismemberment of the single diocese of Algiers (established in 1838). It is limited to the east by the Archdiocese of Algiers, to the south by the Diocese of Laghouat, to the west by the border of Morocco; it covers nearly {{convert|56000|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}. It is believed that its current population is around 9.8 million inhabitants spread over 9 departments, of which 1,500 are Catholic. At the time of Saint Augustine, about thirty bishoprics existed on the current extent of the diocese; from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

Oran, occupied by the Spaniards, depended on the Archbishop of Toledo. After the massive departure of the French at the independence of Algeria in 1962, then of foreign workers at the beginning of the Algerian Civil War, the Catholic community only has a few hundred members nowadays.{{Cite web |title=Diocèse d'Oran |url=http://www.ada.asso.dz/Presentation/Oran/PREORA.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805215931/http://www.ada.asso.dz/Presentation/Oran/PREORA.htm |archive-date=5 August 2004 |language=fr}} Pierre Claverie, bishop of Oran between 1981-1996, was murdered together with a Muslim assistant by a bomb that had been planted at the door of the bishopric.{{cite book |last1=Fontaine |first1=Darcie |title=Decolonizing Christianity Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria |date=June 2016 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107118171 |page=218 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=059ODAAAQBAJ |access-date=15 December 2023}}

The seat of the bishop is Cathédrale Sainte-Marie in Oran.

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1. Jean-Baptiste-Irénée Callot ({{start date|1867|01|12|df=y}} – {{end date|1875|11|01|df=y}})
2. {{ill|Louis-Joseph-Marie-Ange Vigne|fr}} ({{start date|1876|03|01|df=y}} – {{end date|1880|02|27|df=y}}), appointed Bishop of Digne, France
3. {{ill|Pierre-Marie-Etienne-Gustave Ardin|fr}} ({{start date|1880|02|12|df=y}} – {{end date|1884|03|27|df=y}}), appointed Bishop of La Rochelle and Saintes, France
4. {{ill|Noël-Mathieu-Victor-Marie Gaussail|fr}} ({{start date|1884|01|10|df=y}} – {{end date|1886|06|10|df=y}}), appointed Bishop of Perpignan-Elne, France
5. {{ill|Géraud-Marie Soubrier|fr}} ({{start date|1886|03|02|df=y}} – {{end date|1898|03|24|df=y}})
6. {{ill|Edouard-Adolphe Cantel|fr}} ({{start date|1898|07|08|df=y}} – {{end date|1910|12|10|df=y}})
7. {{ill|Pierre-Firmin Capmartin|fr}} ({{start date|1911|02|19|df=y}} – {{end date|1914|12|25|df=y}})
8. {{ill|Christophe-Louis Légasse|fr}} ({{start date|1915|12|06|df=y}} – {{end date|1920|08|13|df=y}}), appointed Bishop of Périgueux (-Sarlat), France
9. {{ill|Léon-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Durand|fr}} ({{start date|1920|10|11|df=y}} – {{end date|1945|03|20|df=y}})
10. Bertrand Lacaste ({{start date|1945|12|29|df=y}} – {{end date|1972|11|30|df=y}})
11. Henri Teissier ({{start date|1972|11|30|df=y}} – {{end date|1980|12|20|df=y}}), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Alger
12. Pierre Lucien Claverie, OP ({{start date|1981|05|25|df=y}} – {{end date|1996|08|01|df=y}})
13. Alphonse Georger ({{start date|1998|07|10|df=y}} – {{end date|2012|12|1|df=y}})
14. Jean-Paul Vesco, OP ({{start date|2012|12|01|df=y}} – {{end date|2021|12|27|df=y}}, appointed Archbishop of Alger and is current administrator of Oran)

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• {{Official website|https://eglise-catholique-algerie.org/eglise-algerie/diocese-oran/}}
• [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dorna.html catholic-hierarchy.org]
• [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/oran0.htm GCatholic.org]

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