Diocese of Maxita

The '''Diocese of Maxita is a bishopric in Algeria. It was a Roman [Catholic Church] diocese in the Roman province of Africa Proconsulare.

History

Maxita is located in the Al-Asnam region of Algeria. It is an ancient Christian episcopal see in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, suffragan of the Metropolitan of its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae.
It may have been centered on the unrecorded basilica discovered at Al Asnam, but was to fade.
Only one bishop is known from antiquity: Felix, among the Catholic prelates summoned to the Council of Carthage (484) by the Arian Vandal king Huneric.

Titulars see

The diocese of Maxita was nominally restored in 1933 as a titular bishopric, of the lowest rank.
It has had the following, near-consecutive incumbents: