Khemisti is a town and commune in Tissemsilt Province in northern Algeria. It was called Bourbaki when Algeria was a colony of France.
History
In Roman times, it was called Columnata and belonged to the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis.
Bishop Martialis of Columnata was one of the Catholic bishops whom the Arian Vandal king Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 145J. Ferron, v. Columnata in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIII, Paris 1956, coll. 347-348Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 465
No longer a residential bishopric, Columnata is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 873
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