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Vicus Pacati was an ancient city and formerepiscopal see inRoman North Africa, which only remains as aLatin Churchtitular see of theCatholic Church.

The name refers to thevicus (area, quarter, district) constituting thelatifundia of the family Arii Pacati.

It was among the many cities of sufficient importance to become asuffragan diocese in theRoman province ofNumidia, but faded so completely that its location is not even identified for sure with modernAïn-Mechara inAlgeria.

Two of its bishops are historically documented :

• Flavianus, participant at theCouncil of Carthage called in 484 by kingHuneric of theVandal Kingdom and afterward exiled like most Catholic bishops, unlike their schismaticDonatist (heretic) counterparts
• Florentianus, attended theCouncil of Carthage in 525.

Thediocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latintitular see of Vicus Pacati (Latin) / Vico di Pacato (Curiate Italian) / Pacaten(sis) (Latin adjective)

It has had the following incumbents:

• Bishop-elect Tomás Balduino,Dominican Order (O.P.) (1967.08.15 – 1967.11.10) asCoadjutorBishop-Prelate ofTerritorial Prelature of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia (Brazil) (1967.08.15 – 1967.11.10); later Bishop ofGoiás (Brazil) (1967.11.10 – retired 1998.12.02), died 2014
• Johannes Joachim Degenhardt (1968.03.12 – 1974.04.04) asAuxiliary Bishop ofArchdiocese of Paderborn (Germany) (1968.03.12 – 1974.04.04); later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Paderborn (1974.04.04 – death 2002.07.25), createdCardinal-Priest ofS. Liborio (2001.02.21 [2001.10.14] – 2002.07.25)
• Adolfo Hernández Hurtado (1974.12.12 – death 2004.10.15) as Auxiliary Bishop ofArchdiocese of Guadalajara (Mexico) (1974.12.12 – retired 1997.03.20) and on emeritate; previously Bishop ofTapachula (Mexico) (1958.01.13 – 1970.09.06), Bishop ofZamora (Mexico) (1970.09.06 – 1974.12.12)
• Paul Hwang Cheol-soo (황철수 바오로) (2006.01.17 – 2007.11.21) as Auxiliary Bishop ofDiocese of Busan 부산 (South Korea) (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 ofDiocese of Santiago del Estero (Argentina) (2008.11.22 – 2015.05.12); nextCoadjutor Bishop ofNueve 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 ofArchdiocese of Montreal (Canada) (2016.04.19 – ...).

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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, inRecueil des Notices et Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol. 46, 1913, pp. 101–102

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