This Wikipedia article records that Algeria maintained diplomatic ties with the Holy See continuously through and after independence in 1962, that Algeria's constitution names Islam the state religion while Catholicism remains licit with limits on proselytism and evangelical movements are officially forbidden, and that Archbishop Leon-Etienne Duval, who remained in Algeria after French colonists departed, became known as the "bishop of Muslims." It names no concordat between Algeria and the Holy See.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria%E2%80%93Holy_See_relations
Source Typeencyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
A crowd sourced encyclopedia article used here for the continuity of diplomatic ties since independence and the constitutional and pastoral context, of the kind Wikipedia sources reliably from Holy See and Algerian government material, hence the middle rather than the bottom tier. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Algeria directly: "This Wikipedia article records that Algeria maintained diplomatic ties with the Holy See continuously through and after independence in 1962, that Algeria's constitution names Islam the state..."
This source names Holy See directly: "maintained diplomatic ties with the Holy See continuously through and after independence in 1962, that Algeria's constitution names Islam the state religion while Catholicism remains licit with..."
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- Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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