Antoninus
Antoninus (fl. 400s–410s) was a bishop in North Africa and one of Augustine's correspondents on matters of church discipline and pastoral practice. He appears 9 times in this collection as a recipient of Augustine's letters.
Augustine's letters to Antoninus deal with the practical challenges of running a North African diocese in the early fifth century — managing clerical disputes, handling questions of church discipline, and navigating the complex ecclesiastical politics of a region divided by the Donatist schism. They offer a ground-level view of the administrative work that consumed most of a bishop's time.
Antoninus is significant as a representative of the ordinary bishops who formed the backbone of the African church — men whose names history barely remembers but who did the daily work of keeping a complex institution running in difficult times.
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From Augustine of Hippoc. 389
1. As letters are due to you by two of us, a part of our debt is repaid with very abundant usury when you see one of the two in person; and since by his voice you, as it were, hear my own, I might have refrained from writing, had I not been called to do it by the urgent request of the very person whose journey to you seemed to me to make this un...
From Augustine of Hippoc. 405
Since letters are owed to you by two of us, part of the debt is repaid with generous interest when you see one of us...