Naratcata was the seat of an ancient episcopal see of the Roman province of Numidia. The location of the diocese seat and cathedra is not known but presumably was a place called Naratcatensis and was somewhere in today's Algeria.^[1]

There are two known bishops of Naratcata:

• Fortunatianus attended the synod meeting in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric after which Fortunatianus was later exiled;
• Colombo was among the fathers of another Carthaginian council in 525, celebrated under Hilderic.

The diocese ceased to function with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb but was re-established in name in 1933.^[2] Today Naratcata survives as a titular bishopric and the bishop is Jean-Pierre Kwambamba Masi, of Kinshasa, who replaced Fernando Bascopé Müller in 2014.

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