Lamsorti
Lamsorti was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Lamsorti, at the site of Henchir-Mâfouna in present Algeria, was among many cities of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Numidia to become a suffragan diocese, but destined to fade, plausibly at the seventh century advent of Islam.It has three historically documented bishops :
- The Donatist schismatic Antonianus took part in the Council of Carthage in 411, where the Catholics condemned Donatism as heresy
- Felix attended the Council of Carthage in 484 called by Arian king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, and was exiled afterward, like most Catholic bishops
- Florentius took part in another Council of Carthage in 525 held under Vandal king Hilderic.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Lamsorti / Lamsorten.It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank:
- Michael George Bowen as Coadjutor Bishop of Arundel and Brighton ; next succeeded as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, Metropolitan Archbishop of Southwark
- Jacques Berthelet, Viatorians as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Saint-Jean–Longueuil ; previously Superior General of Clerics of Saint Viator ; later Bishop of above Saint-Jean–Longueuil, President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
- Pedro Nicolás Bermúdez Villamizar, Eudists, first as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Caracas, then as emeritus.