Lares, Africa

see Lares (disambiguation) for namesakes

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 (episcopal) rank with two archiepiscopal (intermediary) exceptions :

See also

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