Sufasar Explained

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.^[1]

Sufasar was also the seat,^[2] of an ancient bishopric,^[3] Metropolitan of Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell).^{[4] [5] [6]}

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.^{[7] [8]}

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)

Notes and References

1. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1663.htm Sufasar
2. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013,), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
3. Web site: Sufasar (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]]. Cheney. David M.. www.catholic-hierarchy.org. 2018-01-29.
4. [Pius Bonifacius Gams]
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]