Lamphua was an ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa and remains a Latin Catholic
titular see
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.
Its present location is Aïn-Foua, in modern
Algeria
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History
Lamphua was important enough in the late
Roman province
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of
Numidia
Numidia ( Berber: ''Inumiden''; 202–40 BC) was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians located in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up modern-day Algeria, but later expanding across what is today known as Tunis ...
to be one of its many
suffragan
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In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
sees, but was to fade.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a
titular bishopric
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
(Curiate Italian name variant Lamfua).
It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :
* Luigi Cicuttini (1966.09.07 – 1971.01.05)
* Philip Francis Smith,
Oblates of Mary Immaculate
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(O.M.I.) (1972.06.26 – 1980.03.14) as Apostolic Vicar of
Jolo
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(Philippines) (1972.06.26 – 1979.04.11) and
Coadjutor Bishop
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of
Cotabato
Cotabato or North Cotabato ( hil, Aminhan Cotabato; ceb, Amihanang Cotabato; Maguindanaon: ''Pangutaran Kutawatu'', Jawi: ڤڠوترن كوتاواتو; fil, Hilagang Cotabato), officially the Province of Cotabato, is a landlocked province in ...
(Philippines) (1979.04.11 – 1979.11.05); later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Cotabato (1979.11.05 – retired 1998.05.30)
* Sofio Guinto Balce (1980.05.09 – 1988.05.21)
* Gheorghi Ivanov Jovčev (1988.07.06 – 1995.11.13)
* Jacson Damasceno Rodrigues,
Redemptorists
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(C.SS.R.) (1996.12.18 – 1998.03.16)
* Philip Huang Chao-ming (黃兆明) (1998.06.27 – 2001.11.19)
* Francisco González Valer,
Sons of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph (S.F.) (2001.12.28 – present), Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of
Washington
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(USA)
See also
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Catholic Church in Algeria
The Catholic Church in Algeria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
Prior to independence, Algeria was home to a million Catholic settlers (10%). Some Moroccans of Berber (mostly Kabyle ...
References
Source and External links
GCatholic, with titular incumbent links
Catholic titular sees in Africa
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