Sufasar was a Roman town, one of many in Roman North Africa. Sufasar faded with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. The site has been tentatively identified with ruins at Amourah in modern Algeria.Sufasar, at GCatholic.org.
Sufasar was also the seat,Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013 of an ancient bishopric, Metropolitan of Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell).Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 468.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 286–287J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), pp. 451–452.
Its bishop, Urbanus, was one of the Catholic bishops whom the Arian Vandal king Huneric summoned to a conference in Carthage in 484 and then exiled.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 75Auguste Audollent, v. Amaurensis, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Paris 1953, coll. 994-995 Bishopric
Titular see Gaston-Marie Jacquier (1960-1976) Stanislaw Adam Sygnet (1976-1985) André Vallée (1987-1996) José Benjamín Castillo Plascencia (1999-2003) Claude Champagne (2003-2009) Augustinus Kim Jong-soo (2009-2022) Francisco Javier Acero Pérez (2022-present)
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