Vᵉ siècle – Vᵉ siècle
North Africa
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Huneric was the Vandal king who succeeded Gaiseric and intensified the kingdom’s religious confrontation with Catholic North Africans. He summoned Catholic bishops to a conference with Arian representatives in 484, then imposed conversion or exile and deported many bishops. His policies weakened Catholic institutions but did not eliminate them, as monasteries, local aristocrats, and clerical networks preserved the Catholic community.
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Huneric succeeded Gaiseric as Vandal ruler in 477 and continued the policy of maintaining Arian Christianity as the religion of the ruling population. The religious distinction separated the Vandals from the Catholic majority of their North African subjects. It also provided the ideological basis for state measures against Catholic bishops and clergy, particularly in territories associated with the Vandal settlement.
In May 483, Huneric summoned Catholic bishops from across the Vandal empire, including Sardinia and the Balearic Islands, to a conference scheduled for 1 February 484. The Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Africae preserves a list of 466 summoned bishops, although its geographical distribution raises unresolved problems. The gathering did not produce religious unity, and Huneric responded by applying anti-heretical laws to Catholics.
Catholics were offered the choice of conversion to Arianism or exile, and many bishops were deported under harsh conditions. These actions failed to destroy Catholic organization. Monasteries founded by wealthy laymen sustained local communities, while the small size of the Vandal population forced the regime to rely on Catholic provincial elites for administration outside the sortes Vandalorum.
Vᵉ siècle – Vᵉ siècle
North Africa
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
Huneric was the Vandal king who succeeded Gaiseric and intensified the kingdom’s religious confrontation with Catholic North Africans. He summoned Catholic bishops to a conference with Arian representatives in 484, then imposed conversion or exile and deported many bishops. His policies weakened Catholic institutions but did not eliminate them, as monasteries, local aristocrats, and clerical networks preserved the Catholic community.
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Le récit
Huneric succeeded Gaiseric as Vandal ruler in 477 and continued the policy of maintaining Arian Christianity as the religion of the ruling population. The religious distinction separated the Vandals from the Catholic majority of their North African subjects. It also provided the ideological basis for state measures against Catholic bishops and clergy, particularly in territories associated with the Vandal settlement.
In May 483, Huneric summoned Catholic bishops from across the Vandal empire, including Sardinia and the Balearic Islands, to a conference scheduled for 1 February 484. The Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Africae preserves a list of 466 summoned bishops, although its geographical distribution raises unresolved problems. The gathering did not produce religious unity, and Huneric responded by applying anti-heretical laws to Catholics.
Catholics were offered the choice of conversion to Arianism or exile, and many bishops were deported under harsh conditions. These actions failed to destroy Catholic organization. Monasteries founded by wealthy laymen sustained local communities, while the small size of the Vandal population forced the regime to rely on Catholic provincial elites for administration outside the sortes Vandalorum.
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