Capra was an ancient Roman-Berber town in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It was located in the present-day area of Béni Mansour and Béni Abbès, Algeria. It was a bishopric in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Ecclesiastical history
Victor Vitensis speaks of Capra Picta as a town in that province, where some Catholics sent there into internal exile under the Arian Genseric, king of the Vandals from 428 to 477, converted a great number of the local population to Christianity.
In the Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae, Primus, bishop of the church in Capra, appears in the list of the Catholic bishops whom Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.
Titular see
No longer a residential bishopric, Capra is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.
The Ancient diocese was nominally restored in 1933 and since had the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) or intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks :