Nicives

History

• At the 411 Conference of Carthage, which saw the Catholics and Donatists, debate, the town was represented by the Catholic Justus episcopus Nicibensis, who did not have Donatist counterpart.
• Among the Catholic bishops called to Carthage in 484 by King Huneric the Vandal was Paulus Nibensis, which according to Mesnage is to be read as Nicibensis.
• Finally a Byzantine inscription discovered in the region of N'Gaous and dating back to 581 or 582 shows the name Colombo: according to the same author this Columbus may be the bishop referred to in some letters from Gregory the Great written at the beginning of the 7th century who was appointed to investigate Massimiano bishop of Pudenziana, accused by his deacons of being bribed by Donatists.

Bishops

• Justus
• Paul †
• Colombo †
• Angelo Félix Mugnol
• Guillermo Escobar Vélez
• Abel Alonso Núñez
• Stanley Joseph Ott
• José Mário Stroeher Rio Grande
• William Jerome McCormack
• Andrzej Jerzy Zglejszewski, from February 11, 2014