Amourah
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.
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.
Today, Sufasar survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Augustinus Kim Jong-soo, auxiliary bishop of Daejeon.
- Reparatus
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, as Apostolic Vicar of Vientiane and President of Episcopal Conference of Laos and Cambodia
- Norbert Werbs, first as Auxiliary Bishop of North German Missions, then Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Hamburg .