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Pope Francis Accepts Retirement of Algeria’s Alger Archbishop, Appoints Successor

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Pope Francis has accepted the retirement of Archbishop Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges of the Catholic Archdiocese of Alger in Algeria and appointed his successor.

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