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- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig 1931), p. 464.
- ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia 1816), p. 75.
- ↑ Auguste Audollent, v. Ambiensis, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, (Parigi 1953), coll. 1038-1039.
