Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)

The Diocese of Sufar, is an ancient episcopal seat of the Roman province of

Mauretania Caesariensis Mauretania Caesariensis (Latin for "Caesarean Mauretania") was a Roman province located in what is now Algeria in the Maghreb. The full name refers to its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell). The province had been part of the Kingd ...

. The location of the

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of the bishopric is now lost to history, but it was somewhere in today's Algeria. Christianity seems to have come to Mauretania Caesariensis later than other parts of Roman North Africa, thereby avoiding many of the earlier controversies. Like most bishopric in the west of the province Sufar appears to have flourished only from in late antiquity some time after the Council of Nicaea. There are only Two bishops of Sufar mentioned by the ancient sources, both in the year 484. This leads Mesnage to hypothesize the existence of two towns called Sufar, An alternative interpretation is that the term ''Sufaritanus'' is the contraction of Sufasaritanus, and in this case one of the two bishops of 484 would belong to the diocese of

Sufasar 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 bisho ...

. Sufar seems to have ceased to effectively function only with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. Today Sufar survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Robert P. Reed, who replaced Robert Francis Prevost in 2016.David Cheney
Diocese of Sufar
at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.

Known bishops

* Vittore (

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484) * Romano (fl.484) * Patrick Joseph Casey (1965–1969) * Carlos Schmitt (1970–1971) * Ernst Gutting (1971–2013) * Robert Francis Prevost (2014–2015) * Robert P. Reed (2016–current)

References

Roman towns and cities in Mauretania Caesariensis Catholic titular sees in Africa Ancient Berber cities {{Algiers-geo-stub

Known bishops

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