Paul Desfarges
Algerian bishop
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.
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.
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