Azura, Numidia
Azura was an ancient civitas and bishopric in Roman North Africa. It remains only as Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Azura was one of many cities of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Numidia to become a suffragan. The town was located near present-day Henchir-Loulou, Algeria.Bishopric
Azura did not send a representative to the Council of Nicaea nor Chalcedon.As a bishopric, Azura was represented by the Catholic bishop Victor at the Conference of Carthage (411), where the Catholics declared the schismatic Donatist bishops heretics.
Its bishop Leporius was among the Catholic bishops whom the Arian king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom summoned to Carthage in 484 and was then exiled, like most Catholics.
Titular see
The diocese of Azura was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Azura / Azuen.It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank:
- Afonso Maria Ungarelli, Sacred Heart Missionaries first as Apostolic Administrator of Territorial Prelature of Pinheiro, then as Bishop-Prelate of Pinheiro, as Apostolic Administrator of Territorial Prelature of Cândido Mendes and finally as emeritate
- Edward Dajczak as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Zielona Góra–Gorzów ; next Bishop of Koszalin–Kołobrzeg
- António José da Rocha Couto, S.M.P. as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Braga ; previously Superior General of Portuguese Missionary Society ; later Bishop of Lamego
- Titular Bishop Gaétan Proulx, Servites
- Titular Bishop is Mexican-born Jorge Humberto Rodríguez-Novelo, of Denver.