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Vicus Pacati was an ancient city and former
episcopal see
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in
Roman North Africa
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, which only remains as a
Latin Church
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titular see
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of the
Catholic Church
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.
History
The name refers to the ''
vicus
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'' (area, quarter, district) constituting the latifundia of the family Arii Pacati.
It was among the many cities of sufficient importance to become a
suffragan diocese
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in the
Roman province
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of
Numidia
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, but faded so completely that its location is not even identified for sure with modern Aïn-Mechara in
Algeria
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Huneric
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of the
Vandal Kingdom
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and afterward exiled like most Catholic bishops, unlike their schismatic Donatist (heretic) counterparts
* Florentianus, attended the Council of Carthage in 525.
Titular see
The
diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...
was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin
titular see
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of Vicus Pacati (Latin) / Vico di Pacato (Curiate Italian) / Pacaten(sis) (Latin adjective)
It has had the following incumbents:
*
Bishop-elect
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Tomás Balduino,
Dominican Order
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Goiás
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(Brazil) (1967.11.10 – retired 1998.12.02), died 2014
* Johannes Joachim Degenhardt (1968.03.12 – 1974.04.04) as
Auxiliary Bishop
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...
of Archdiocese of Paderborn (Germany) (1968.03.12 – 1974.04.04); later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Paderborn (1974.04.04 – death 2002.07.25), created
Cardinal-Priest
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of S. Liborio (2001.02.21 001.10.14– 2002.07.25)
* Adolfo Hernández Hurtado (1974.12.12 – death 2004.10.15) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Guadalajara (Mexico) (1974.12.12 – retired 1997.03.20) and on emeritate; previously Bishop of Tapachula (Mexico) (1958.01.13 – 1970.09.06), Bishop of Zamora (Mexico) (1970.09.06 – 1974.12.12)
* Paul Hwang Cheol-soo (황철수 바오로) (2006.01.17 – 2007.11.21) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Busan 부산 (
South Korea
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) (2006.01.17 – 2007.11.21); next succeeded as Bishop of Busan 부산 (2007.11.21 – ...)
* Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi (2008.11.22 – 2015.05.12) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Santiago del Estero (
Argentina
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) (2008.11.22 – 2015.05.12); next
Coadjutor Bishop
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The coa ...
of Nueve de Julio (Argentina) (2015.05.12 – 2015.12.01), succeeding as Bishop of Nueve de Julio (2015.12.01 – ...)
* Alain Faubert (2016.04.19 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Montreal (Canada) (2016.04.19 – ...).
GCatholic ; Bibliography
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 469
* Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa christiana'', Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 353
* H. Jaubert, ''Anciens évêchés et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne'', in ''Recueil des Notices et Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine'', vol. 46, 1913, pp. 101–102
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