173. Rarae in aliquibus civitatibus ecclesiae, paucorum
Christianorum devotione, resurgerent. Acta Sincera, p. 130.
Gregory of Tours, l. i. c. 28. Mosheim, p. 207, 449. There
is some reason to believe that, in the beginning of the
fourth century, the extensive dioceses of Liege, of Treves,
and of Cologne, composed a single bishopric, which had been
very recently founded. See Memoires de Tillemont, tom. vi.
part i. p. 43, 411.