Mutugenna or Muttegena was a colonia (town) of the
Roman,
Berber and
Vandal empires, located in the
Maghreb. The city is generally identified with the ruins at Ain-Tebla in modern
Algeria. Mutugenna was also the locus of a
bishopric and was an important site in the development of the
Donatist schism.
Muttugenna was an Early center of
Donatism[5] and Augustine of Hippo visited the town to confront the Donatist
rebaptising.[6] Indeed, only two bishops are known from Mutugenna, the two rival bishops at the
Council of Carthage (411), Catholic Antonio and Donatists Splendonio.
The city was not far from
Hippo and the bishop
Augustine went there several times. On one occasion he heard there had been rebaptising of Catholics and he went to reproach the practise[7] but was unable to find the people in question.[8][9]
Today Mutugenna survives as titular bishop; the current bishop is Roberto Bordi, auxiliary bishop of the
Apostolic Vicariate of
El Beni.
References
^Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p.467.
^Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp.237-238.
^H. Jaubert, "Évêchés Anciens et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne", in Reports of Notices et Memoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol. 46, 1913, p. 65.