Vicus Pacati
Vicus Pacati was an ancient city and former episcopal see in Roman North Africa, which only remains as a Latin Church titular see of the Catholic Church.
History
The name refers to the vicus constituting the latifundia of the family Arii Pacati.It was among the many cities of sufficient importance to become a suffragan diocese in the Roman province of Numidia, but faded so completely that its location is not even identified for sure with modern Aïn-Mechara in Algeria.
Two of its bishops are historically documented :
- Flavianus, participant at the Council of Carthage called in 484 by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom and afterward exiled like most Catholic bishops, unlike their schismatic Donatist counterparts
- Florentianus, attended the Council of Carthage in 525.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular see of Vicus Pacati / Vico di Pacato / PacatenIt has had the following incumbents:
- Bishop-elect Tomás Balduino, Dominican Order as Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia ; later Bishop of Goiás, died 2014
- Johannes Joachim Degenhardt as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Paderborn ; later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Paderborn, created Cardinal-Priest of S. Liborio
- Adolfo Hernández Hurtado as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Guadalajara and on emeritate; previously Bishop of Tapachula, Bishop of Zamora
- Paul Hwang Cheol-soo as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Busan 부산 ; next succeeded as Bishop of Busan 부산
- Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Santiago del Estero ; next Coadjutor Bishop of Nueve de Julio, succeeding as Bishop of Nueve de Julio
- Alain Faubert, Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Montreal .