Amourah is a town and Latin Catholic

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. The

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lies in

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. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 5,879.

History

Amaura corresponds to

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Sufasar, a town in the

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during the Vandal Kingdom,

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and

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Titular bishopric

Of this ancient diocese only one bishop is known, Reparato a

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, who intervened at the Conference of Carthage of 411, on that occasion the seat had no

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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

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ric and the current

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is Augustinus Kim Jong-soo, auxiliary bishop of

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. *Reparato ( fl.411) No longer a residential bishopric, Amaura is today listed by the

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as a

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,''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 830 of the lowest (episcopal) rank. Since the diocese was thus nominally restored in 1933, it has had the following non-consecutive incumbents : * Étienne-Auguste-Germain Loosdregt,

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(O.M.I.) (1952.03.13 – death 1980.11.13), as Apostolic Vicar of

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(Laos) (1952.03.13 – resigned 1975) and President of Episcopal Conference of Laos and Cambodia (1964 – retired 1978) *

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(1981.01.07 – death 2023.01.03), first as Auxiliary Bishop of North German Missions (Germany) (1981.01.07 – 1994.10.24), then Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of

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(Germany) (1994.10.24 – retired 2015.05.20).

References

External links and sources

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