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Maturba
Maturba
is a
locality
in
Algeria
,
North Africa
.
During the
Roman Empire
there was a
Roman town
located here. That
town
flourished in
late antiquity
from
AD 300
to AD640.
The town
did not last long after the
Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
.
Maturba was also the
seat
of an
ancient
titular bishopric
of the
Roman Catholic Church
. The
bishopric
survives today as a
titular see
. The current bishop is
Paul Simick
who
replaced
José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León
in
2014
.