Amourah

Commune and town in Djelfa Province, Algeria

Amourah عمورة
Commune and town

Nickname: Sufasar
Country	Algeria
Province	Djelfa Province
Population (1998)
• Total	5,879
• Density	19/sq mi (7.4/km²)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)

Amourah, or Amoura is a town and Latin Catholic titular bishopric in Algeria.

The commune lies in Djelfa Province. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 5,879.^[1]

History

Amaura corresponds to ancient Sufasar, a town in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis during the Vandal Kingdom, Byzantine Empire and Roman Empire.

Titular bishopric

Of this ancient diocese only one bishop is known, Reparatus, a Catholic, who intervened at the Conference of Carthage of 411; on that occasion the seat had no Donatist bishops.

An entry in the records of the Carthage Conference of 484 could, according to Mesnage, be a bishop of the town.^[2]

Today, Sufasar survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Augustinus Kim Jong-soo, auxiliary bishop of Daejeon.

Reparatus (fl.411)

No longer a residential bishopric, Amaura is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see,^[3] of the lowest (episcopal) rank.

Since the diocese was thus nominally restored in 1933, it has had the following non-consecutive incumbents :

Étienne-Auguste-Germain Loosdregt, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) (1952.03.13 – death 1980.11.13), as Apostolic Vicar of Vientiane (Laos) (1952.03.13 – resigned 1975) and President of Episcopal Conference of Laos and Cambodia (1964 – retired 1978)
Norbert Werbs (1981.01.07 – death 2023.01.03), first as Auxiliary Bishop of North German Missions (Germany) (1981.01.07 – 1994.10.24), then Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Hamburg (Germany) (1994.10.24 – retired 2015.05.20).

References

^ Statoids
^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), pp. 451–452.
^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 830