Under the
Roman Empire, it was called
Coeliana, perhaps after the name of the Coelii Maximi family, and was part of the
Roman province of
Numidia. Bishop Quodvultdeus of Coeliana was one of the Catholic bishops whom the
Arian Vandal king
Huneric summoned to
Carthage in 484 and then exiled. Pius Bonifacius Gams, No longer a residential bishopric, Coeliana is today listed by the
Catholic Church as a
titular see. ==References==