The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in Africa

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THE ECCLESIASTICAL HIERARCHY IN AFRICA

650 - 700 A.D.

L. de Mas Latrie in "Trésor de Chronologie d'Histoire et de Géographie pour l'étude et l'emploi des documents du Moyen Age", Paris 1889, mentioned the territorial organization of the Church in Africa in the 7th century as follows:

1. The Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. The Church of Ethiopia or Abyssinia

The Church of Nubia

The Homerite Church in Arabia Felix

The Church of Adulis on the Red Sea

3. The Maghreb (De Mas Latrie, op.cit. pp. 1866 - 74)

(MC. III, 1, fol. 497).