Tertullian of Carthage quotes from Tertullian:→ Previous Next Tertullian (155-220) lived in Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He is the first writer in Latin known to use the term trinity. Saint Jerome says that Tertullian lived to old age (Jerome. De viris illustribus. p. 53). Tertullian was the teacher of Cyprian of Carthage and was the