Vicus Pacati


Vicus Pacati was an Ancient city and former bishopric of Roman North Africa, which only remains as a Latin Catholic titular see.

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 :
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Vicus Pacati / Vico di Pacato / Pacaten
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank :