Maximian was a relative of Donatus of Casae Nigrae and was one of several people excommunicated in 391 by Primian, Bishop of Carthage.
Primian was a great orator and thinker, but tactless and within a year had alienated large parts of the church.
[1] Primian held a rival council in Bagai in April 394AD and excommunicated Maximian.
[1] The Donatists sought to depose Salvius, the Maximianist Bishop of Membresa, in favour of the Primianist Restitutus.
Much respected by the residents of Membresa, his people built him a new church, and three bishops coexisted in this small town, a Maximianist, a Primianist, and a catholic.