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Fulgentius von Ruspe (lateinisch: Fulgentius Ruspensis, Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius; * um 462 oder 467 oder 468 in Telepte/Thelepte; † 1. Januar 533 in Ruspe)

Telepte/Thelepte/Theleptensis war eine antike Stadt, die in der römischen Provinz Byzacena (Sahelregion Tunesiens) lag - hier gab es auch einen Bischofssitz

Thelepte (Berber: تلابت) was a city in the Roman province of Byzacena, now in western Tunisia. It is located 5 km from the modern town of Fériana, near the border with Algeria, at around 34°58′33″N 8°35′38″E. (Fériana (Arabic: فريانة‎) is a town and commune in the Kasserine Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 24,198. It is 35 km from Kasserine and 75 from Gafsa.)

The Roman city held the rank of colonia. An important network of roads branched out from it, linking it with Cilium and Theveste to the north, and Gafsa and Gabes to the south. In the 6th century it became the residence of the military governor of Byzacena. Procopius (De Ædificiis, VI, 6) says that the city was fortified by Justinian.

We have the names of several bishops of Thelepte. Julianus was present at the Council of Carthage of 256 that Cyprian called to consider the question of the lapsi; Donatianus, who assisted at the joing Conference of Carthage in 411 between Catholic and Donatist bishops and at a council called by Saint Aurelius in Carthage in 416 and at another in Milevum in the same year; he himself as senior bishop of the province held a council of the bishops of Byzacena in 418 either at Thelepte or at Zella (the manuscripts do not agree). Frumentius was one of the Catholic bishops whom the Arian Vandal king Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled. Stephanus was present at an anti-Monothelitism Council of Byzacena in 641.

The ruins of Thelepte may be seen at Medinet el-Kedima, in Tunisia, a little to the north of Gafsa. The Byzantine citadel, in utter ruins, occupies the centre of the city. There are also the remains of baths, a theatre, and of ten churches recently discovered, one of which had a nave and four aisles.