ORLÉANSVILLE. – In Algeria, on the site of the ancient Castellum Tingitanum. The names of some of its bishops are known: Marino in 324, known from an inscription; Cereale in 431, mentioned by Isidore of Seville; Voconio and Boconio around 460, mentioned by Gennadius; Reparato (460–75), whose epitaph is known; Pietro around 484. Severino was a Donatist bishop around 411.
In 1843, the basilica of Bishop Reparato (26 × 16 m) was discovered, with lateral entrances to the hall, divided into five naves by pillars, with a raised apse and another apse opposite it, in which a baptistery is thought to have been placed. The floor was covered with mosaics and inscriptions, one of which indicated that the foundations had begun on 21 November 324 (CIL, VIII, 9708); another bore the wish: semper pax (ibid., 9712); in a third, in the form of a labyrinth, one read Sancta ecclesia (ibid., 9710); a play of letters formed the inscription Marinus sacerdos (ibid., 9711). The mosaic inscription of Bishop Reparato was subsequently inserted there. Northeast of O., at the site of Beni-Rached, a large mosaic pavement (9.40 × 5.70 m) was discovered in 1913. At its center was a laurel wreath bearing the votive inscription placed by the donors, Floro and Matrona, with their children, and the wish «cum clero tuo floresa ut hoc fieret Deus iussit». Southwest of this dedication there appears a second mosaic laurel wreath with the inscription « Pax ecclesiae catholicae semper », which refers to the period of the struggle against Donatism at the end of the fourth century; the first inscription suggests that Beni-Rached too was an episcopal see at that time (J. Carcopino, Note relative à une inscription chrétienne découverte près d'O., in Comptes rendus de l'Acad. des. inscr. et belles lettres ... [1913], pp. 633-66). Three kilometers from O., a Christian hypogeum was discovered, with tombs decorated with mosaics and inscriptions dated to the years 468 and 474 (CIL, VIII, 9713). There, in 1850, the bronze chandelier in the shape of a basilica was found; it later passed into the A. Basilewsky collection and is now in the « de l'Ermitage » Museum in Leningrad (reproduced under AFRICA, vol. I, col. 414).
Among the other inscriptions, two fragments of brick are noteworthy, now in the Museum of Algiers and originating from a chapel on the banks of the Chelif. They mention a memoria apostolorum Petri et Pauli and end with the expression iubente Deo et Christo, dating from the end of the fourth or the fifth century (CIL, VIII, no. 9714); there is also the marble epitaph of the son of the tribune Fuscius, who died in 406 and was buried near a memoria of the same apostles, « apud sanctos Apostolos Petru et Paulu in nomine Dei et Cristi » (ibid., no. 9715).