The town was also the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric.[10]
During the Donatist controversy there were congregations both of Catholics and of Donatists in the town.[11]
Marazane, perhaps identifiable with Henchir-Guenmara in today's Tunisia, is an ancient episcopal seat of the Bizacena Roman province.
There are five ancient documented bishops of Marazane.[12][13]
^Société de l'histoire de France, Volume 41 (La Société, 1845) p152.
^Claude Lepelley, Xavier Dupuis, Frontières et limites géographiques de l'Afrique du Nord antique: hommage a Pierre Salama : actes de la table ronde réunie à Paris les 2 et 3 mai 1997 (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1999) p170
^Edward White Benson, Cyprian: His Life, His Times, His Work: His Life, His Times, His Work (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 18 Oct. 2004) p603-604.
^Conrad MANNERT, Joseph DUESBERG, Louis MARCUS (Professor of the German Language and Literature.)Géographie ancienne des États barbaresques, d'après l'allemand de Mannert [from the “Geographie der Griechen und Romer, etc.], par MM. L. Marcus et Duesberg, avec des additions et des notes par M. L. Marcus (Paris, 1842)