ACCI

ACCI. - Present-day Guadix, in the province of Granata (Spain), a very ancient city, formerly a Roman colony. From the earliest years of the 4th century it was an episcopal see. Indeed, Felice, the first among the nineteen bishops present at the Council of Illiberis (Elvira, Granata), held around the year 300, was bishop of A. From the subscriptions of the Toledan councils and from two inscriptions, the names of several bishops of A. (late 6th century and 7th century) may be derived. Isidoro Pacense preserved the memory of Frodoario, distinguished for virtue and learning, who governed the see of Acci in the year 719, under the Arabs. More than a century later, Quirico, the last known bishop of A., attended the Council of Cordova (839), at which the heresy of the Acephali was condemned. S. Eulogio of Cordova recounts the martyrdom of the Accitanian s. Fandila, which took place in that city on 13 June 853. The see was re-established in the 15th Guadix (v.).