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