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{{Short description|Locality in Algeria}}
{{distinguish|text=[[Martuba]], a town in Libya}}
[[File:Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD).svg|thumb|right|Roman Empire - [[Mauretania Caesariensis]] (125 AD)]]
'''Maturba''' is a locality in [[Algeria]], North Africa.
During the [[Roman Empire]] there was a [[civitas|Roman town]] located here. That town  flourished in [[late antiquity]] from AD 300 to AD640.<ref>D. J. Mattingly, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies, '[https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373853 Martuba] at Pleiades place resource', ''Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places'', 2012</ref> The town did not last long after the [[Muslim conquest of the Maghreb]].
Maturba was also the [[cathedra|seat]] of an [[classical antiquity|ancient]] [[titular bishop]]ric of the [[Roman Catholic Church]].<ref>[https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=de&sp=nmt4&u=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2m71.html&usg=ALkJrhiLH1c6dt1E-lEsvi82_bw6XSyCIg Maturbensis ] at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.</ref> The [[bishopric]] survives today as a [[titular see]].<ref>[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1114.htm  Diocesi di Maturba] at www.gcatholic.org.</ref><ref>[[Pius Bonifacius Gams]], [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=65154&dirids=1 ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae''], (Leipzig, 1931), p.&nbsp;467.</ref><ref>Stefano Antonio Morcelli, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dO4-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA217 ''Africa christiana''], Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.&nbsp;217.</ref> The current bishop is Paul Simick who replaced [[José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León]] in 2014.<ref>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2m71.html Diocesi di Maturba] at www.catholic-hierarchy.org.</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Roman towns and cities in Mauretania Caesariensis]]
[[Category:Catholic titular sees in Africa]]
[[Category:Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa]]
[[Category:Ancient Berber cities]]
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