Victor of Tunnuna (died circa 570) was bishop

Bishop

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 of the North African

Africa Province

The Roman province of Africa was established after the Romans defeated Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day northern Tunisia, and the small Mediterranean coast of modern-day western Libya along the Syrtis Minor...

 town of Tunnuna and a chronicler from Late Antiquity

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What little information we have on his life is derived from entries in his own chronicle

Chronicle

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. Victor was a staunch supporter of the Three Chapters which had been condemned by Justinian's edict of 544, and on this account he was arrested. After some time in exile on the Balearic Islands

Balearic Islands

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 and imprisonment in the monastery of Mandracium near Carthage

Carthage

Carthage , implying it was a 'new Tyre') is a major urban centre that has existed for nearly 3,000 years on the Gulf of Tunis, developing from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC...

, he was transferred to a prison in Alexandria

Alexandria

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; he was again transferred in 556, this time to a monastery at Canopus. In 565 he and five other African bishops were summoned before Justinian and Patriarch

Patriarch of Constantinople

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 Eutychius

Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople

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 in Constantinople

Constantinople

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 and ordered to submit to the emperor's edict. When they refused to do so, they were imprisoned in different monasteries in the capital. Victor died about 570, probably still in confinement at a monastery in Constantinople.

Works

Victor is the author of a chronicle, the Chronicon, which ran from the creation of the world to the end of the year 566 but of which only the part extending from 444 to 566 (continuing the Epitoma chronicon by Prosper of Aquitaine

Prosper of Aquitaine

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) is extant. It is of great historical value, dealing chiefly with the Eutychian heresy, the controversy about the Three Chapters, and giving some details concerning the Arians

Arianism

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 and the invasion of the Vandals

Vandals

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. In general, church matters receive more attention than other issues in this chronicle. It was continued to 590 by John of Biclaro

John of Biclaro

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, founder of the Abbey of Biclar in Visigoth

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ic Hispania

Hispania

Another theory holds that the name derives from Ezpanna, the Basque word for "border" or "edge", thus meaning the farthest area or place. Isidore of Sevilla considered Hispania derived from Hispalis....

 (the Iberian Peninsula

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, comprising modern Spain

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 and Portugal

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Victor has been credited with being the author of the pseudo-Ambrosian De Poenitentia, although Victor of Cartenna seems to be the real author.