19/29 Sacra Africana, p.lix.ad Optat. Milav.) observes and bewails this episcopal decay. In the more prosperous age of the church, he had noticed 690 bishoprics; but however minute were the dioceses, it is not probable that they all existed at the same time.] [Footnote 27: The African laws of Justinian are illustrated by his German biographer, (Cod.l.i.tit.27. |