Lares, Africa
- see Lares (disambiguation) for namesakes
Lares was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Its modern location is Henchir Lorbeus in present Tunisia.
History
Lares was important enough in the Late Roman province of Africa Proconsularis to become one of the many suffragans of its capital Carthage's Metropolitan Archbishopric, but like most was to fade.
Titular see
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 :
- Bishop-elect Dionisio Francisco Mellado Eguíluz (1716.03.30 – ?)
- Juan Llano Ponte (1769.11.20 – 1791.09.26)
- Tommaso Gallarati Scotti (1794.02.21 – 1804.07.10)
- Domenico Lombardi (1821.08.13 – ?)
- Jules-François Philippe, Fransalians (M.S.F.S.) (1886.08.24 – 1904.04.16)
- Joaquim Antônio d’Almeida (1915.06.14 – 1947.04.01)
- Richard Henry Ackerman, Holy Ghost Fathers (C.S.Sp.) (1956.04.06 – 1960.04.04)
- Luis Aponte Martinez (1960.07.23 – 1963.04.16) (later Cardinal*)
- Titular Archbishop Rubén Isaza Restrepo (1964.01.03 – 1974.10.03)
- Justo Oscar Laguna (1975.02.01 – 1980.01.22)
- Eduardo Ernesto FuentesRuysschaert Duarte (1980.04.09 – 1982.10.18)
- Titular Archbishop Ambrose Battista De Paoli (1983.09.23 – 2007.10.10)
- William Patrick Callahan, Conventual Franciscans (O.F.M. Conv.) (2007.10.30 – 2010.06.11)
- Thomas Eusebios Naickamparampil (2010.07.14 – 2016.01.04), as first Exarch of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of the United States of America, until promoted first Eparch of St. Mary, Queen of Peace, of the United States of America and Canada