****Amourah, or Amoura is a town and Latin Catholic titular bishopric in Algeria. The commune lies in Djelfa Province. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 5,879.

History

Amaura corresponds to ancient Sufasar, a town in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis during the Vandal Kingdom, Byzantine Empire and Roman Empire.

Titular bishopric

Of this ancient diocese only one bishop is known, Reparatus, a Catholic, who intervened at the Conference of Carthage of 411; on that occasion the seat had no Donatist bishops. An entry in the records of the Carthage Conference of 484 could, according to Mesnage, be a bishop of the town. Today, Sufasar survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Augustinus Kim Jong-soo, auxiliary bishop of Daejeon. No longer a residential bishopric, Amaura is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see, of the lowest (episcopal) rank. Since the diocese was thus nominally restored in 1933, it has had the following non-consecutive incumbents :

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