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Lamphua
Lamphua
was an
Ancient city
and bishopric in
Roman Africa
and remains a Latin
Catholic titular see
.
Its present location is
Aïn-Foua
, in
modern
Algeria
.
History
Lamphua was important
enough
in the late
Roman province
of
Numidia
to be one of its many
suffragan sees
, but was to fade.
Titular
see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a
titular bishopric.
It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest rank :
Luigi Cicuttini
Philip [Francis Smith
,
Oblates of Mary Immaculate
as
Apostolic Vicar
of
Jolo
and
Coadjutor Bishop
of
Cotabato
; later succeeded as
Metropolitan Archbishop
of Cotabato
Sofio Guinto Balce
Gheorghi Ivanov Jovčev
Jacson Damasceno Rodrigues,
Redemptorists
Philip Huang Chao-ming
Francisco González Valer
,
Sons of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
,
Auxiliary Bishop
emeritus of
Washington
