Conférence Episcopale Régionale du Nord de l’Afrique (C.E.R.N.A.)

Present Officials

President (2025.02 – ...):	Archbishop Nicolas Lhernould (51) Archbishop of Tunis (Tunisia)
Vice-President (2025.02 – ...):	Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, O.P. (64) Cardinal-Priest of S. Cuore di Gesù agonizzante a Vitinia Metropolitan Archbishop of Alger–Iulia Caesarea (Algeria) Member of Council for the Economy

Past Officials

• President:  Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, S.D.B. (74) (2022.02.15 – 2025.02)
• President:  Archbishop Paul Desfarges, S.J. (82) (2015.03.07 – 2022.02.15)
• President:  Archbishop Vincent Louis Marie Landel, S.C.I. di Béth. (85) (2012.11.21 – 2015.03.07)
• President:  Archbishop Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham (78) (2012.03.01 – 2012.11.21)
• President:  Archbishop Vincent Louis Marie Landel, S.C.I. di Béth. (85) (2006.02 – 2012.03.01)
• President:  Archbishop Fouad Twal (85) (later Patriarch) (2004.01 – 2006.02)
• President:  Archbishop Henri Antoine Marie Teissier (1983 – 2004.01)
• President:  Cardinal Léon-Étienne Duval (1966 – 1983)
• Vice-President:  Archbishop Nicolas Lhernould (51) (2022.02.15 – 2025.02)
• Vice-President:  Archbishop Ilario Antoniazzi (78) (2015.03.07 – 2022.02.15)
• Vice-President:  Bishop Claude Jean Narcisse Rault, M. Afr. (85) (2012.11.21 – 2015.03.07)
• Vice-President:  Bishop Paul Desfarges, S.J. (82) (later Archbishop) (2012.03.01 – 2012.11.21)
• Vice-President:  Archbishop Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham (78) (2010? – 2012.03.01)
• Vice-President:  Bishop Alphonse Émile Georger (90) (2006.02 – 2010?)
• Vice-President:  Archbishop Vincent Louis Marie Landel, S.C.I. di Béth. (85) (2004.01 – 2006.02)
• General Secretary:  Fr. Michel Jean-Paul Guillaud (65) (later Bishop) (2015.03.07 – 2025)
• General Secretary:  Fr. Daniel Nourissat (2006.02 – 2015.03.07)

Last updated on 2026.09.04

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