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Lamsorti

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Lamsorti was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

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Lamsorti, at the site of Henchir-Mâfouna in present Algeria, was among many cities of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Numidia to become a suffragan diocese, but destined to fade, plausibly at the seventh century advent of Islam.

It has three historically documented bishops :

Titular see

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The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Lamsorti (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Lamsorten(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:

See also

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Bibliography
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 466
  • Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 197–198