Libertina

Libertina

Libertina

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Libertina was a town of the Roman province of Byzacena in North Africa during the Roman Empire.[1][2] The town is tentatively identified with ruins near Souc-El-Arba, Tunisia.[3]

Africa Proconsularis

The town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric,[4] which survives as an ancient suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in North Africa.[5] During the 5th century the Catholic Bishop Victor and his Donatist rival, bishop Januarius, exchanged heated words at the Council of Carthage in 411.[6] There appears to have been sectarian violence in Libertina during the lead up to the council.

The current bishop Andreas Laun of Salzburg, Austria.[7] resigned in October 2017.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    Operum quae exstant volumen primum [secundum] Ex lingua anglicana in latinam convertit Jo. Henricus Grischovius...cum praefatione Jo. Franc. Buddei(Joseph Bingham, Grischow, 1758) p 639.
  2. [2]
    Frederic Martin, Notes on the Four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles: Illustrations of the Doctrine Principle and Practice of the Church of England (W. Pickering, 1838 ) p 540.
  3. [3]
    Titular Episcopal See of Libertina at GCatholic.org.
  4. [4]
    Libertina at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
  5. [5]
    Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1)
  6. [6]
    Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2011) p574.
  7. [7]
    Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 141, Number 12,503.
  8. [8]
    The Last: Faithful Auxiliary Bishop Laun Dismissed on 75th Birthday.
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