Libertina

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

The town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric, which survives as an ancient suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in North Africa.

During the 5th century the Catholic Bishop Victor and his Donatist rival, bishop Januarius, exchanged heated words at the Council of Carthage in 411. There appears to have been sectarian violence in Libertina during the lead up to the council.

The current bishop Andreas Laun of Salzburg, Austria, resigned in October 2017.

References

↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Titular Episcopal See of Libertina at GCatholic.org.
↑ Libertina at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1)
↑ Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2011) p574.
↑ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 141, Number 12,503.
↑ "The Last: Faithful Auxiliary Bishop Laun Dismissed on 75th Birthday". The Eponymous Flower.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) ^{[dead link]}

[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". The Eponymous Flower.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) ^{[dead link]}