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in the Catholic Church starts in the 6th century in Christian North Africa. At that time, the invasion of North Africa by Muslim Arab armies forced the bishops in that region to flee to Rome. The Catholic Church did not want to acknowledge that these dioceses had been permanently lost, so the popes kept reappointing their bishops. Over the centuries, these exiled bishops lived out their tenures in Rome, receiving financial support from the Vatican without

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