Lares, Africa


Lares was a city of Roman Africa, located at modern Henchir Lorbeus, Tunisia.

Ecclesiastical history

The bishopric of Lares in the Late Roman province of Africa Proconsularis was a suffragan of its capital Carthage's Metropolitan Archbishopric, but like most was to fade.
The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric in the 18th century, until 1933 also called Lari in Curiate Italian.
It has had the following incumbents, of the lowest rank with two archiepiscopal exceptions: