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]

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]

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References

  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. 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. Titular Episcopal See of Libertina at GCatholic.org.
  4. Libertina at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
  5. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN   978-88-209-9070-1)
  6. Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2011) p574.
  7. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 141, Number 12,503.
  8. The Last: Faithful Auxiliary Bishop Laun Dismissed on 75th Birthday.