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Deogratias (of Carthage; 454–457 CE) was one of the few Nicene bishops (Nicaea) elected to the see of Carthage during the Vandal period (429–534 CE; Vandals). He is mainly known through a few hagiographical paragraphs of Victor of Vita’s Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae (1.24–27).His date and place of birth are unknown. The rarity of his praenomen led scholars to believe that he might be the same individual mentioned in some of Augustine of Hippo’s letters and works. If this is correct, then he would have been a deacon and…

Cerealis, Nicene bishop of an unknown see ( Castellensis), is the main character of an anti-homoian treatise entitled Disputatio Cerealis contra Maximinum. He is also typically presented as the author of the same text, although this is an unsubstantiated inference. The text, most likely an imaginary dialogue, specifies that the highly structured theological debate it pretends to record took place in Carthage, against an “Arian” bishop (Arianism), when a king was in power, hence the near-universal consensus to situate Cerealis’ Disputatio during the Vandal period (429–534 C…