It lasted through the Vandal Kingdom and Roman Empire, until at least the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, in late antiquity.
[2] Like most of Mauretania Caesariensis, Christianity appears to have been not well established until after the Council of Nicaea.
A bishop of Satafi,[3][4] Ascendant, took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal King Huneric, after which Ascendant was exiled to Sicily.
A Donatist bishop called Saiacensis or Saiensis,[5] has also been attributed to this town but instead he was probably from Saia Maggiore.
Today Satafi retains a titular bishopric held by Eduardo Muñoz Ochoa, of Guadalajara, Jalisco.