Azura (diocese)

Azura was an ancient civitas and bishopric in Roman North Africa– It remains only as Latin Catholic titular see.

Azura as one of many cities of sufficient importance in the Roman(-Berber) province of Numidia to become a suffragan. The town was located near present-day Henchir-Loulou (itself a former Roman city and bishopric, Rotaria), Algeria.

Azura did not send a representative to the Council of Nicaea nor Chalcedon

As a bishopric, Azura was represented by the Catholic bishop Victor at the Conference of Carthage (411) where the Catholics declared the schismatic Donatist bishops heretics.

Its bishop Leporius was among the Catholic bishops whom the Arian king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom summoned to Carthage in 484 and was then exiled, like most Catholics.

The diocese of Azura was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Azura (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Azuen(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank: