Alphonse Georger Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:His Eminence
Alphonse Georger
Bishop emeritus, Roman Catholic Diocese of Oran
Church:Roman Catholic
See:Oran
Appointed:1998
Ended:2012
Predecessor:Pierre Claverie
Successor:Jean-Paul Vesco
Ordination:1965
Birth Date:25 May 1936
Birth Place:Sarreguemines, Moselle,, France
Religion:Roman Catholic
Nationality:French

Alphonse Georger (born 25 May 1936 in Sarreguemines, Moselle) is a French and Algerian Catholic bishop and an Emeritus Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oran in Algeria since December 2012.

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Alphonse Georger was ordained priest Catholic priest on 29 June 1965 in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Algiers. He got Algerian nationality in 1977.[1]

Georger was appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oran on 10 July 1998 by Pope John Paul II and he was consecrated to the episcopate on 16 August 1998 by Archbishop Joseph Duval, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen.

Retiring on grounds of age in 2012, his successor,the Dominican Jean-Paul Vesco, was appointed on 1 December 2012 and was ordained bishop on 25 January 2012. Monsignor Georger accordingly became an emeritus bishop.

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  1. Web site: Église Catholique d'Algérie - DIOCESE_ORA_EVEQUE . 2013-10-26 . https://archive.today/20130704002726/http://eglise-catholique-algerie.org/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=153 . 2013-07-04 . dead .