Titular diocese of Lamasba
Lamasba is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
The city, located in North Africa, was an old Roman bishopric that went down in the 7th century with the Islamic expansion . It was on the western border of the Roman province of Numidia , today's Mérouana in Algeria .
Titular Bishops of Lamasba | ||||
No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
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1 | Eduardo Vásquez OP | December 30, 1853 | December 12, 1856 | |
2 | Paul Francis Tanner | Secretary General of the Bishops' Conference of the United States ( USA ) | October 18, 1965 | 15th February 1968 |
3 | Wolfgang Große | Auxiliary Bishop in Essen ( Germany ) | October 12, 1968 | February 15, 2001 |
4th | Vincent Michael Rizzotto | Auxiliary Bishop in Galveston-Houston (USA) | June 22, 2001 |