Primate of Africa
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Primate of Africa
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The Primate of Africa is an honorific title in the Roman Catholic church, but in early Christianity was the leading bishop (primas) in Africa except for Mauretania which was under the bishop of Rome and Egypt which was suffragan to Alexandria. There were at times primates in Numidia and Byzacena, and Donatist claimants, but generally the role of the bishop of Carthage was seen as total. In the 3rd century, at the time of Cyprian, the bishop of Carthage exercised a real though not formalized prim
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