Titular diocese of Lamasba

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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
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

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