Castra Severiana

Castra Severiana was an ancient Roman-era town of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, in North Africa during late antiquity.

The town in modern Algeria has been tentatively identified with ruins at Sidi-Ali-Ben-Joub (Chanzy) or Lalla Marnia.

[2] From inscriptions we know that Castra Severiana was part of the small Kingdom of Altava, a Christian–Berber kingdom that existed around Tamazgha from the 4th century AD until the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.

[3][4] The town was also the cathedra of the diocese of Castra Severiana,[5] an ancient Christian bishopric in the papal sway, that flourished in late antiquity[6][7] Its only historically documented bishop was Faustus, mentioned in 484.

[8] It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, do far of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank:

Roman Empire – Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)