Amourah


Amourah 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.

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, Reparato 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.
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, of the lowest rank.
Since the diocese was thus nominally restored in 1933, it has had the following non-consecutive incumbents :