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Sufasar was a Roman town, one of many in Roman North Africa. Sufasar faded with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. The site has been tentatively identified with ruins at Amourah in modern Algeria.

Sufasar was also the seat, of an ancient bishopric, Metropolitan of Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell).

Its bishop, Urbanus, was one of the Catholic bishops whom the Arian Vandal king Huneric summoned to a conference in Carthage in 484 and then exiled.

Bishopric

Titular see

• Gaston-Marie Jacquier (1960-1976)
• Stanislaw Adam Sygnet (1976-1985)
• André Vallée (1987-1996)
• José Benjamín Castillo Plascencia (1999-2003)
• Claude Champagne (2003-2009)
• Augustinus Kim Jong-soo (2009-2022)
• Francisco Javier Acero Pérez (2022-present)

References

1. Sufasar, at GCatholic.org.
2. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
3. Cheney, David M. "Sufasar (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
4. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 468.
5. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 286–287
6. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), pp. 451–452.
7. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 75
8. Auguste Audollent, v. Amaurensis, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Paris 1953, coll. 994-995

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