Diocese of Laghouat Dioecesis Laghuatensis | |
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 Former Cathedral of St. Hilary | |
| 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 2021) 5,103,660 2,160 (0.0%) |
| Parishes | 9 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | July 19, 1901 |
| Cathedral | Ghardaïa Cathedral (a pro-cathedral) |
| Secular priests | 2 (Diocesan) 8 (Religious Orders) |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | John MacWilliam, M. Afr. |
| Bishops emeritus | Claude Rault, M. Afr. |
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| Website | |
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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.