The Presbyters Project

Book 1, Chapter 16

1. Eodem tempore presbyterii mei contra Fortunatum quendam Manicheorum presbyterum disputaui, qui plurimum temporis apud Hipponem uixerat seduxeratque tam multos, ut propter illos ibi eum delectaret habitare. [...] Sed consequenti die tandem confessus est, nihil se aduersus nos inuenire quod diceret, nec sane catholicus factus est, sed tamen ab Hippone discessit.

(ed. Mutzenbacher 1984: 51)

Book 1, Chapter 16

1. At the same time during my presbyterate I had a debate with a certain Fortunatus, a presbyter of the Manicheans, who had lived a long time at Hippo and had led so many astray that, because of them, he enjoyed living there. […] But on the next day he finally admitted that he could find nothing to say against us. He did not become Catholic, to be sure, but he did leave Hippo.

(trans. B. Ramsey)

Discussion:

For the same event see also [705] and [896].

Place of event:

Region

Latin North Africa

City

Hippo Regius

About the source:

Author: Augustine of Hippo
Title: Retractions, Retractationes, Revisions Revisions
Origin: Hippo Regius (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

In about AD 426/427 Augustine, 72 years old at the time, wrote “Retractions”: a kind of an annotated bibliography of his own works.

Edition:

A. Mutzenbacher ed., Sancti Aurelii Augustini Retractationum libri II, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 57, Turnhout 1984.

Translation:

Saint Augustine, Revisions, trans. B. Ramsey, New York 2000.

Categories:

Travel and change of residence

PR456.

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Relation with - Another presbyter

Relation with - Heretic/Schismatic

Religious grouping (other than Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian) - Manichaean

PR456.

Pastoral activity

PR456.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER798, https://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=798