No later than AD256, the town was the
seat of a
Christianbishop. The diocese was in abeyance after the Muslim conquest of the region until it was restored by the
Roman Catholic Church in 1933 as a
titular bishopric (diocesis Macomadensis).[2]
Aurelius participated in the
411 council of Carthage (where both Catholic and heretical bishops were invited) as well as his Donatist counterpart from Macomades, Sallustius
Pardalius was exiled after participating in the
484 synod of Carthage, called by the Vandal king
Huneric, an Arian; in 487 he parttook, probably as Numidian delegate, in
Pope Felix III's Lateran Council.