Map of the Diocese of Laghouat (Shown in yellow encompassing all of the Sahara)
Location
Country
Algeria
Ecclesiastical province
Immediately exempt to the Holy See
Metropolitan
Laghouat
Statistics
Area
2,107,708 km2 (813,791 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics
(as of 2013) 4,324,000 1,200 (0.0%)
Information
Denomination
Catholic Church
Sui iuris church
Latin Church
Rite
Roman Rite
Established
July 19, 1901 (1901-07-19)
Cathedral
Ghardaïa Cathedral (a pro-cathedral)
Secular priests
11
Current leadership
Pope
Francis
Bishop
John MacWilliam, M. Afr.
Bishops emeritus
Claude Rault, M. Afr.
Website
Diocesan Website
The Diocese of Laghouat (Latin: Dioecesis Laghuatensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church covering the sparsely populated Saharan inland of Algeria.
It is immediately exempt to the Holy See and not part of any ecclesiastical province, and depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The bishops cathedra is found in the Pro-Cathedral of Ghardaïa in the episcopal see of Ghardaïa. The former cathedral is the now-deconsecrated church of Saint Hilarion, in the city of Laghouat.
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