Naratcata was the seat of an ancient episcopal see of the Roman province of

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. The location of the diocese seat and

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is not known but presumably was a place called ''Naratcatensis'' and was somewhere in today's Algeria. There are two known bishops of Naratcata: * Fortunatianus attended the synod meeting in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric after which Fortunatianus was later exiled; * Colombo was among the fathers of another Carthaginian council in 525, celebrated under Hilderic. The diocese ceased to function with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb but was re-established in name in 1933. Titular Episcopal See of Naratcata
at Gcatholic.org. Today Naratcata survives as a titular bishopric and the bishop is Jean-Pierre Kwambamba Masi, of Kinshasa, who replaced Fernando Bascopé Müller in 2014.

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{{reflist Ancient Berber cities Catholic titular sees in Africa Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa Roman towns and cities in Algeria