The Most Famous

RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Algeria

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This page contains a list of the greatest Algerian Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 3,187 Religious Figures, 2 of which were born in Algeria. This makes Algeria the birth place of the 86th most number of Religious Figures behind Palestine, and Yemen.

Top 7

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Algerian Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Algerian Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Saint Monica (332 - 387)

With an HPI of 70.90, Saint Monica is the most famous Algerian Religious Figure.  Her biography has been translated into 41 different languages on wikipedia.

Monica (c. 332 – 387) was an early North African Christian saint and the mother of Augustine of Hippo. She is remembered and honored in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, albeit on different feast days, for her outstanding Christian virtues, particularly the suffering caused by her husband's adultery, and her prayerful life dedicated to the reformation of her son, who wrote extensively of her pious acts and life with her in his Confessions. Popular Christian legends recall Monica weeping every night for her son Augustine.

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2. Ahmad al-Tijani (1735 - 1815)

With an HPI of 56.71, Ahmad al-Tijani is the 2nd most famous Algerian Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Abū al-ʻAbbās Ahmad ibn Muhammad at-Tijāniyy or Ahmed Tijani (Arabic: أحمد التجاني, 1735–1815), was an Algerian Sharif who founded the Tijaniyyah tariqa (Sufi order).

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3. Sidi Boushaki (1394 - 1453)

With an HPI of 54.95, Sidi Boushaki is the 3rd most famous Algerian Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 26 different languages.

Sidi Boushaki or Ibrahim Ibn Faïd Ez-Zaouaoui (Arabic: إبراهيم بن فايد الزواوي) (1394 CE/796 AH – 1453 CE/857 AH) was a Maliki theologian born near the town of Thenia, 54 km (34 mi) east of Algiers. He was raised in a very spiritual environment with high Islamic values and ethics within the Algerian Islamic reference.

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4. Abdelhamid Ben Badis (1889 - 1940)

With an HPI of 54.42, Abdelhamid Ben Badis is the 4th most famous Algerian Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Abd al-Hamīd ibn Mustafa ibn Makki ibn Badis (Arabic: عبد الحميد بن مصطفى بن المكي بن باديس), better known as Ibn Badis (Arabic: بن باديس) was an Algerian Salafi educator, exegete, Islamic reformer, scholar and figurehead of cultural nationalism. In 1931, Ben Badis founded the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema, which was a national grouping of many Islamic scholars in Algeria from many different and sometimes opposing perspectives and viewpoints. The Association would have later a great influence on Algerian Muslim politics up to the Algerian War of Independence. In the same period, it set up many institutions where thousands of Algerian children of Muslim parents were educated. The Association also published a monthly journal, the Al-Chihab and Souheil Ben Badis contributed regularly to it between 1925 and his death in 1940. The journal informed its readers about the Association's ideas and thoughts on religious reform and spoke on other religious and political issues.

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5. Maximilian of Tebessa (274 - 295)

With an HPI of 53.93, Maximilian of Tebessa is the 5th most famous Algerian Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Maximilian of Tebessa, also known as Maximilian of Numidia, (Latin: Maximilianus; AD 274–295) was a Christian saint and martyr, whose feast day is observed on 12 March. Born in AD 274, the son of Fabius Victor, an official connected to the Roman army, Maximilian was obliged to enlist at the age of 21. He is noted as the earliest recorded conscientious objector, although it is believed that other Christians at the time also refused military service and were executed.

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6. Optatus (400 - 397)

With an HPI of 53.01, Optatus is the 6th most famous Algerian Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Optatus, sometimes anglicized as Optate, was Bishop of Milevis, in Numidia, in the fourth century, remembered for his writings against Donatism.

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7. Jean-Marc Aveline (b. 1958)

With an HPI of 43.66, Jean-Marc Aveline is the 7th most famous Algerian Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Jean-Marc Noël Aveline (born 26 December 1958) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was named Archbishop of Marseille on 8 August 2019 after serving as an auxiliary bishop there since 2013 and been a cardinal since 2022. On 27 August 2022, Pope Francis made Aveline a cardinal.

People

Pantheon has 7 people classified as Algerian religious figures born between 274 and 1958. Of these 7, 1 (14.29%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Algerian religious figures include Jean-Marc Aveline. The most famous deceased Algerian religious figures include Saint Monica, Ahmad al-Tijani, and Sidi Boushaki. As of April 2024, 5 new Algerian religious figures have been added to Pantheon including Ahmad al-Tijani, Sidi Boushaki, and Maximilian of Tebessa.

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