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Commune and town in Djelfa Province, Algeria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
Amaura corresponds to ancient Sufasar, a town in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis during the Vandal Kingdom, Byzantine Empire and Roman Empire.
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.
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 :
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