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

Conference of Bishops

Also known as: Regional Episcopal Conference of North Africa (English)

Countries: Algeria , Libya , Morocco , Tunisia , Western Sahara

Address: 1 rue Hadj Mohammed Riffai, B.P. 258 R.P., 1001 Rabat (Maroc), Morocco

Phone: (0537).709.232

Present Officials

President (2025.02 – ...):

Archbishop Nicolas Lhernould (50)

Archbishop of Tunis (Tunisia)

Vice-President (2025.02 – ...):

Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, O.P. (63)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Cuore di Gesù agonizzante a Vitinia

Metropolitan Archbishop of Alger–Iulia Caesarea (Algeria)

Past Officials

President: Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, S.D.B. (73) (2022.02.15 – 2025.02)
President: Archbishop Paul Desfarges, S.J. (81) (2015.03.07 – 2022.02.15)
President: Archbishop Vincent Louis Marie Landel, S.C.I. di Béth. (84) (2012.11.21 – 2015.03.07)
President: Archbishop Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham (77) (2012.03.01 – 2012.11.21)
President: Archbishop Vincent Louis Marie Landel, S.C.I. di Béth. (84) (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 (50) (2022.02.15 – 2025.02)
Vice-President: Archbishop Ilario Antoniazzi (77) (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. (81) (later Archbishop) (2012.03.01 – 2012.11.21)
Vice-President: Archbishop Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham (77) (2010? – 2012.03.01)
Vice-President: Bishop Alphonse Émile Georger (89) (2006.02 – 2010?)
Vice-President: Archbishop Vincent Louis Marie Landel, S.C.I. di Béth. (84) (2004.01 – 2006.02)
General Secretary: Fr. Michel Jean-Paul Guillaud (64) (later Bishop) (2015.03.07 – 2025)
General Secretary: Fr. Daniel Nourissat (2006.02 – 2015.03.07)

Last updated on 2025.12.21

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