Archbishop of Carthage · c. 230 (Agrippinus, first attested bishop; martyrs from 180)
Africa's church appears suddenly and fully grown: the Scillitan martyrs die at Carthage in 180, Tertullian writes there a generation later, and from Agrippinus (c. 230) the line runs to Cyprian, the councils of Aurelius, and Augustine's colleagues. Vandal and Byzantine rule battered it; the conquest of 698 began the long silence — a last archbishop is glimpsed about 1076, and then the line ends.
The ancient line has no living successor — Rome's later archdiocese of Carthage (1884–1964) revived the name, not the succession; today's archdiocese of Tunis keeps a Christian presence on the same shore.
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