Chronological list of saints and blesseds: 5
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A list of 5th century saints:
NameBirthBirthplaceDeathPlace of deathNotes
Anastasius I
Pope Anastasius I
Pope Saint Anastasius I, born in Rome the son of Maximus, was pope from November 27, 399 to 401.He condemned the writings of the Alexandrian theologian Origen shortly after their translation into Latin. He fought against these writings throughout his papacy and in 400 he called a council to discuss...

    401   Bishop of Rome
Alexander Akimetes     403  
Epiphanius of Salamis
Epiphanius of Salamis
Epiphanius of Salamis was bishop of Salamis at the end of the 4th century. He is considered a saint and a Church Father by both the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches. He gained a reputation as a strong defender of orthodoxy...

315   403   Bishop of Constantia
Severinus
Severin of Cologne
Saint Severin of Cologne was the third known Bishop of Cologne, living in the later 4th century. Little is known of him. He is said in 376 to have founded a monastery in the then Colonia Agrippina in honour of the martyrs Saints Cornelius and Cyprian, from which developed the later Basilica of St....

    403   Bishop of Cologne
Delphinus of Bordeaux 380   404   Bishop of Bordeaux
Isidore of Alexandria
Isidore of Alexandria
Isidore of Alexandria was an Egyptian or Greek philosopher and one of the last of the Neoplatonists. He lived in Athens and Alexandria toward the end of the 5th century AD. He became head of the school in Athens in succession to Marinus, who followed Proclus.-Life:Isidore was born in Alexandria...

319   404  
Maximian
Maximian
Maximian was Roman Emperor from 286 to 305. He was Caesar from 285 to 286, then Augustus from 286 to 305. He shared the latter title with his co-emperor and superior, Diocletian, whose political brain complemented Maximian's military brawn. Maximian established his residence at Trier but spent...

    404   Bishop of Bagae
Paula
Saint Paula
Saint Paula was an ancient Roman saint and early Desert Mother. A member of one of the richest "senatorial" families which frivolously claimed descent from Agamemnon, Paula was the daughter of Blesilla and Rogatus, from the great clan of the Furii Camilli...

    404  
Tigirius     404  
Victricius
Victricius
Saint Victricius was a bishop of Rouen , missionary, and author. His feast day is August 7. Victricius was the son of a Roman legionnaire, and was in the army himself. However, when he became a Christian, he refused to remain in the army. He was flogged and sentenced for execution, but...

330   404   Bishop of Rouen
Paul of Trois Chateaux     405   Bishop of Augusta
Vigilius     405   Bishop of Trento
John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom , Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and his ascetic...

    407   Bishop of Constantinople
Theotimus     407   Bishop of Tomi
Olympias
Olympias the Deaconess
Saint Olympias was a widow, deaconess and friend of Saint John Chrysostom. Born in Constantinople, circa 368, to a wealthy family, but was left orphaned at a young age. Olympias would later go on marry a man by the name of Nebridius, who was Prefect of Constantinople...

368 Constantinople
Constantinople
Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...

408 Nicomedia
Nicomedia
Nicomedia was an ancient city in what is now Turkey, founded in 712/11 BC as a Megarian colony and was originally known as Astacus . After being destroyed by Lysimachus, it was rebuilt by Nicomedes I of Bithynia in 264 BC under the name of Nicomedia, and has ever since been one of the most...

Venerius of Milan     409   Bishop of Milan
Anysius     410   Bishop of Thessalonica
Asella     410  
Euphrasia (Eupraxia) of Constantinople 380   410  
Gaudentius of Brescia     410   Bishop of Brescia
Isaac of Constantinople     410  
Marcella
Saint Marcella
Marcella is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. She was a Christian ascetic in ancient Rome. Growing up in Rome, she was influenced by her pious mother, Albina, an educated woman of wealth and benevolence. Childhood memories centered around piety, and one in particular related to Athanasius,...

    410  
Melania the Elder
Melania the Elder
Saint Melania the Elder or Maior was a Desert Mother who was an influential figure in the Christian ascetic movement that sprang up in the generation after the Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire...

    410  
Pammachius
Saint Pammachius
Saint Pammachius was a Roman senator who is venerated as a saint.-Biography:In youth he frequented the schools of rhetoric with St. Jerome. In 385 he married Paulina, second daughter of St. Paula....

    410  
Titus     410  
Exsuperius     412  
Taurinus
Saint Taurinus
Saint Taurinus of Évreux , also known as Saint Taurin, is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. His legend states that he was the first bishop of Évreux. He evangelized the region and died a martyr.-Legend:...

    412   Bishop of Évreux
Theodosius of Antioch     412  
Bassian     413   Bishop of Lodi
Marcellinus of Carthage
Marcellinus of Carthage
Marcellinus of Carthage was a Christian martyr and saint who died in 413. He was secretary of state of the Western Roman Empire under Roman Emperor Honorius and a close friend of Augustine of Hippo, as well as a correspondent of Saint Jerome's...

    413  
Honoratus
Honoratus
Saint Honoratus was Archbishop of Arles.There is some disagreement concerning his place of birth, and the date of his death is still disputed, being according to certain authors, January 14 or January 15. It is believed that he was born in the north of Gaul and that he belonged to an illustrious...

330   415   Bishop of Vercelli
Magorianus     415  
Maruthas
Maruthas
Saint Maruthas or Marutha of Martyropolis was a monk who became bishop of Maypherkat in Mesopotamia for a period beganing before 399 and still in office in 410. He's believed to have died before 420...

    415   Bishop of Maypherkat
Nicetas
Nicetas of Remesiana
Saint Nicetas was Bishop of Remesiana, present-day Bela Palanka in the Pirot District of modern Serbia, but which was then in the Roman province of Dacia Mediterranea.-Biography:...

335   415   Bishop of Remesiana
Alexius
Alexius
Alexius is the Latinized form of the given name Alexios , especially common in the later Byzantine Empire. Variants include Alexis with the Russian Aleksey and its Ukrainian counterpart Oleksa/Oleksiy deriving from this form...

    417  
Innocent I
Pope Innocent I
-Biography:He was, according to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, the son of a man called Innocens of Albano; but according to his contemporary Jerome, his father was Pope Anastasius I , whom he was called by the unanimous voice of the clergy and laity to succeed -Biography:He was,...

    417   Bishop of Rome
Amator (Amatre)     418   Bishop of Auxerre
Helena
Helena
-First name:*Helena , Roman mother of Emperor Constantine*Helena, wife of Julian , Roman daughter of Emperor Constantine*Helena...

    418  
Eustochium
Eustochium
Saint Eustochium . Born Eustochium Julia at Rome, she was the daughter of Saint Paula and is also venerated as a saint and was an early Desert Mother. She was the third of four daughters of the Roman Senator Toxotius, for whom Jerome made a lot of fanciful claims of ancestry. After the death of...

    419  
Adbas (Audas)     420  
Dictinus     420   Bishop of Astorga
Hormisdas     420  
Jerome
Jerome
Saint Jerome was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of Stridon, which was on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia...

345   420  
Porphyrius
Porphyry of Gaza
Saint Porphyry , Bishop of Gaza 395–420, known from the account in his Life for Christianizing the recalcitrant pagan city of Gaza, and demolishing its temples.Porphyry of Gaza is known to us only from the vivid biography by Mark the Deacon...

    420  
Sabinua     420   Bishop of Piacenza
Salvinus     420   Bishop of Verdun
Severinus (Seurin)     420   Bishop of Bordeaux
Urbitius     420   Bishop of Metz
James Intercisus
James Intercisus
Saint James Intercisus is a Persian saint. His surname, Intercisus, is derived from the Latin word for "cut into pieces," which refers to the manner of his martyrdom: he was slowly cut into twenty-eight pieces...

    421  
Maharsapor (Sapor)     421  
Boniface I
Pope Boniface I
Pope Saint Boniface I was pope from December 28, 418 to September 4, 422. He was a contemporary of Saint Augustine of Hippo, who dedicated to him some of his works....

    422   Bishop of Rome
Elpidius     422   Bishop of Lyon
Renatus
Renatus
Renatus is a first name of Latin origin which means "born again" . In countries of Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages it exists in a masculine and feminine form i.e., Renato and Renata. In the French language they have been translated to René and Renée. The feminine form Renate is also...

 (Rend)
    422   Bishop of Angers
Eusebius of Cremona     423  
Marolus
Marolus
Marolus was Archbishop of Milan from 408 to 423. He is honoured as a Saint in the Catholic Church and his feast day is April 23.-Life:According to the writings of Ennodius, bishop of Pavia in early 6th-century, Marolus was born on the banks of the Tigris in Mesopotamia. Probably due to the...

    423  
Venerandus     423   Bishop of Clermont
Benjamin
Benjamin (saint)
Saint Benjamin was a deacon martyred circa 424 in Persia. St. Benjamin was executed during a period of persecution of Christians that lasted forty years and through the reign of two Persian kings: Isdegerd I, who died in 421, and his son and successor, Varanes V...

    424  
Atticus
Archbishop Atticus of Constantinople
Atticus was the archbishop of Constantinople, succeeding Arsacius of Tarsus in March 406. He had been an opponent of John Chrysostom and helped Arsacius of Tarsus depose him, but later became a supporter of him after his death...

    425  
Castor
Castor of Apt
Saint Castor of Apt was a bishop of Apt, in Gaul.He was born in Nîmes and may have been the brother of Saint Leontius of Fréjus. Castor was a lawyer and married to a wealthy widow. He lived in Marseilles. His wife, however, allowed him to enter the religious life; she herself entered a nunnery....

    425   Bishop of Apt
Theonestus     425   Bishop of Philippi
Seraphina     426  
Theophilus     427   Bishop of Brescia
Felix of Bologna     429   Bishop of Bologna
Honoratus
Honoratus
Saint Honoratus was Archbishop of Arles.There is some disagreement concerning his place of birth, and the date of his death is still disputed, being according to certain authors, January 14 or January 15. It is believed that he was born in the north of Gaul and that he belonged to an illustrious...

    429  
James of Tarentaise     429   Bishop of Tarentaise
Sisoesm abbot     429  
Alipius 360   430   Bishop of Tagaste
Augustine
Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...

354   430   Bishop of Hippo
Aurelius
Saint Aurelius
Saint Aurelius was Christian saint who died around 430. He was a bishop of Carthage from ca. 391 and led a number of ecclesiastical councils on Christian doctrine. Augustine of Hippo admired Aurelius, and a number of letters from Augustine to Aurelius have survived. Aurelius's feast day in the...

    430   Bishop of Carthage
Caprasius (Caprais)     430  
Macedonius (the Barley Eater) 340   430  
Oriculus and Companions     430  
Quintian
Quintian, Lucius and Julian
Quintian , Lucius and Julian are venerated as saints and martyrs by the Roman Catholic Church. According to the Roman Martyrology, they were inhabitants of North Africa who were killed during the persecutions of the Vandal king Huneric , who was an Arian. However, the date of their martyrdom may...

    430  
Amandus     431   Bishop of Bordeaux
Paulinus 354   431   Bishop of Nola
Bishop of Nola
The Diocese of Nola is a Roman Catholic diocese in Italy, with its seat in the ancient city Nola. The diocese is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Naples....

Celestine I
Pope Celestine I
Pope Saint Celestine I was elevated to the papacy in the year 422, on November 3 according to the Liber Pontificalis, but on April 10 according to Tillemont....

    432   Bishop of Rome
John I     432   Bishop of Naples
Leontius     432   Bishop of Fregus
Ninian
Ninian
Saint Ninian was a medieval Christian bishop who evangelized the Picts.Ninian may also refer to:* Ninian Edwards , former Governor of Illinois* Ninian Stephen , former Governor-General of Australia...

    432   Bishop of Whithorn
Palladius
Palladius
Palladius was the first Bishop of the Christians of Ireland, preceding Saint Patrick. The Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion consider Palladius a saint.-Armorica:...

    432   Bishop of Ireland
John Angeloptes     433   Bishop of Ravenna
Bishop of Ravenna
This page is a list of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops of Ravenna, and of the Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia. The earlier ones were frequently tied to the Exarchate of Ravenna. -Diocese of Ravenna :*St. Apollinare, legendarily to 79, historically in the era of Septimius Severus*St...

John Cassian     433  
Maro     433  
Alexander of Arumentum     434  
Maximian
Maximian
Maximian was Roman Emperor from 286 to 305. He was Caesar from 285 to 286, then Augustus from 286 to 305. He shared the latter title with his co-emperor and superior, Diocletian, whose political brain complemented Maximian's military brawn. Maximian established his residence at Trier but spent...

    434  
Verulus and Companions     434  
Julian of Bologna     435  
Arcadius
Arcadius
Arcadius was the Byzantine Emperor from 395 to his death. He was the eldest son of Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the Western Emperor Honorius...

 and Companions
    437  
Camilla     437  
Julia
Julia of Corsica
Saint Julia of Corsica , also known as Saint Julia of Carthage, and more rarely Saint Julia of Nonza, was a virgin martyr who is venerated as a Christian saint. The date of her death is most probably on or after AD 439. She, along with Saint Devota, are the patron saints of Corsica in the Roman...

400   439  
Melania the Younger
Melania the Younger
Saint Melania the Younger is a Christian saint and Desert Mother who lived during the reign of Emperor Flavius Augustus Honorius, son of Theodosius I. She is the paternal granddaughter of Melania the Elder.The Feast of Melania the Younger is held on December 31...

383   439  
Orentius
Orientius
- Biography and work :He wrote the elegiac poem Commonitorium of 1036 verses describing the way to heaven, with warnings against its hindrances...

 (Orens)
    439  
Quodvultdeus
Quodvultdeus
Saint Quodvultdeus was a fifth century church father and bishop of Carthage who was exiled to Naples. He was known to have been living in Carthage around 407 and became a deacon in 421 AD. He corresponded with Saint Augustine of Hippo, who served as Quodvultdeus' spiritual teacher...

    439   Bishop of Carthage
Amantius
Amantius of Como
Saint Amantius of Como is venerated as the third bishop of Como. He was preceded by Felix of Como and Saint Provinus. He was succeeded by Saint Abundius. His feast day is 8 April.-Biography:...

    440   Bishop of Como
Dalmatius
Dalmatius
Flavius Dalmatius , also known as Dalmatius Caesar, was a Caesar of the Roman Empire, and member of the Constantinian dynasty.Dalmatius was son of another Flavius Dalmatius, censor, and nephew of Constantine I...

    440  
Domitian
Domitian
Domitian was Roman Emperor from 81 to 96. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty.Domitian's youth and early career were largely spent in the shadow of his brother Titus, who gained military renown during the First Jewish-Roman War...

    440  
Julia of Corsica
Julia of Corsica
Saint Julia of Corsica , also known as Saint Julia of Carthage, and more rarely Saint Julia of Nonza, was a virgin martyr who is venerated as a Christian saint. The date of her death is most probably on or after AD 439. She, along with Saint Devota, are the patron saints of Corsica in the Roman...

    440  
sixtus III     440   Bishop of Rome
Mesrop (Mesrob) 361   441  
Brice
Bricius of Tours
Saint Brice of Tours was the fourth Bishop of Tours, succeeding Martin of Tours in 397.According to legend, Brice was an orphan rescued by Martin and raised in the monastery at Marmoutiers...

 (Britius)
    444   Bishop of Tours
Cyril
Cyril of Alexandria
Cyril of Alexandria was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. He came to power when the city was at its height of influence and power within the Roman Empire. Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the later 4th and 5th centuries...

376   444   Bishop of Alexandria
Marana and Cyra     445  
Petronius
Petronius
Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian age.-Life:...

    445   Bishop of Bologna
Vincent of Lérins
Vincent of Lérins
Saint Vincent of Lérins was a Gallic author of early Christian writings.In earlier life he had been engaged in secular pursuits, whether civil or military is not clear, though the term he uses, "secularis militia," might possibly imply the latter...

    445  
Proclus of Constantinople     446  
Rusticus     446   Bishop of Clermont
Germanus of Auxerre
Germanus of Auxerre
Germanus of Auxerre was a bishop of Auxerre in Gaul. He is a saint in both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, commemorated on July 31. He visited Britain in around 429 and the records of this visit provide valuable information on the state of post-Roman British society...

    448  
Arsenius the Great 355   449  
Eucherius
Eucherius of Lyon
Saint Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, was a high-born and high-ranking ecclesiastic in the Christian Church of Gaul. He is remembered for his letters advocating extreme self-abnegation. Henry Wace ranked him "except perhaps St. Irenaeus the most distinguished occupant of that see".On the death of his...

380   449   Bishop of Lyon
Flavian
Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople
Flavian was Archbishop of Constantinople from 446 to 449. He is venerated as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church....

    449   Bishop of Constantinople
Hilary
Hilary of Arles
Saint Hilary of Arles was a bishop of Arles. He is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, with his feast day celebrated on 5 May.- Life :...

401   449   Bishop of Arles
Augustalus     450   Bishop of Gaul
Dulcidius (Dulcet, Doucis)     450   Bishop of Agen
Fraternus     450   Bishop of Auxerre
Hypatius
Hypatius of Bithynia
Saint Hypatius of Bithynia was a monk and hermit of the fifth century. A Phrygian, he became a hermit at the age of nineteen in Thrace. He then traveled to Constantinople and then Chalcedon with another hermit named Jason...

366   450  
Isidore of Pelusium
Isidore of Pelusium
Isidore of Pelusium was born in Egypt to a prominent Alexandrian family. He became an ascetic, and moved to a mountain near the city of Pelusium, in the tradition of the Desert Fathers....

    450  
John Calybites     450  
Lazarus     450  
Loman     450   Bishop of Trim
Maximus     450  
Palladius
Palladius
Palladius was the first Bishop of the Christians of Ireland, preceding Saint Patrick. The Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion consider Palladius a saint.-Armorica:...

    450  
Peter Chrysologus
Peter Chrysologus
Peter Chrysologus was Bishop of Ravenna from about AD 433 until his death. He is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XIII in 1729.-Life:...

400   450   Bishop of Ravenna
Bishop of Ravenna
This page is a list of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops of Ravenna, and of the Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia. The earlier ones were frequently tied to the Exarchate of Ravenna. -Diocese of Ravenna :*St. Apollinare, legendarily to 79, historically in the era of Septimius Severus*St...

Petronius
Petronius
Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian age.-Life:...

    450   Bishop of Verona
Poemon     450  
Romulus and Conindrus     450  
Saturninus and Companions     450  
Thalelaeus     450  
Turibius
Turibius of Liébana
Saint Turibius of Liébana , also known as Turbius the Monk , was an early Benedictine monk. He was born probably in Turieno and spent most of his life in the region of Liébana. He received a letter full of praise from Bishop Montanus of Toledo in 527...

    450   Bishop of Astorga
Tychon     450   Bishop of Amathus
Valerius
Valerius
Valerius is the nomen of gens Valeria, one of the oldest patrician families of Rome. The name was in use throughout Roman history...

    450   Bishop of Antibes
Armentarius
Armentarius of Pavia
Armentarius of Pavia was Bishop of Pavia; it was during his episcopacy that the see became attached to the Roman Church directly.-References:...

    451   Bishop of Pavia
Cordula     451  
Memorius (Mesmin, Nemorius)     451  
Athanasius     452  
Odran     452  
Anianus (Aignan)     453   Bishop of Orléans
Maurilius     453   Bishop of Angers
Pulcheria
Pulcheria
Aelia Pulcheria was the daughter of Eastern Roman Emperor Arcadius and Empress Aelia Eudoxia. She was the second child born to Arcadius and Eudoxia. Her oldest sister was Flaccilla born in 397, but is assumed she had died young. Her younger siblings were Theodosius II, the future emperor and...

399   453  
Severian
Severian
Severian is the narrator and main character of Gene Wolfe's four-volume novel The Book of the New Sun, as well as its sequel, The Urth of the New Sun. He is a Journeyman of the Guild of Torturers who is exiled after showing mercy to one of his clients.Severian claims to have perfect memory...

    453   Bishop of Scythopolis
Valerius
Valerius
Valerius is the nomen of gens Valeria, one of the oldest patrician families of Rome. The name was in use throughout Roman history...

    453   Bishop of Sorrento
Gaudiosus
Gaudiosus of Naples
Saint Gaudiosus of Naples was a bishop of Abitina in Africa Province during the 5th century. Abitina was a village near Carthage in present-day western Tunisia....

    455  
Severus     455   Bishop of Treves
Monessa     456  
Deogratius     457   Bishop of Carthage
Secundinus
Seachnaill
Saint Secundinus , or Sechnall as he was known in Irish, was founder and patron saint of Domnach Sechnaill, now Dunshaughlin , who went down in medieval tradition as a disciple of St Patrick and one of the first bishops of Armagh...

 (Sechnall, Seachnall)
    457   Bishop of Armagh
Valerian
Valerian of Abbenza
Saint Valerian was bishop of Abbenza in North Africa. He was martyred in 457 when he refused to surrender the sacred vessels of his church to the Vandals led by Arian king Geiseric. Valerian was driven out of the city and left to die of exposure....

    457   Bishop of Abbenza
Anatolius
Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople
Saint Anatolius was Patriarch of Constantinople . He became Patriarch through the influence of Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria with Emperor Theodosius II, after the deposition of Flavian by the Second Council of Ephesus, having previously been the apocrisiarius or representative of Dioscorus with...

    458  
Cilinia (Celine)     458  
Simeon the Stylite     459  
Arator
Arator
Arator was a sixth century Christian poet from Liguria in northwestern Italy. His best known work, De Actibus Apostolorum, is a verse history of the Apostles.-Biography:...

    460   Bishop of Verdun
Armogastes     460  
Baradates
Baradates
St Baradates was a hermit who lived in the Diocese of Cyrrhus in Syria, and whose bishop, Theodoret, called him "the admirable Baradates."...

    460  
Conogon (Gwen, Albinus)     460   Bishop of Brittany
Maximinus
Maximinus
Maximinus II , also known as Maximinus Daia or Maximinus Daza, was Roman Emperor from 308 to 313. He was born of Dacian peasant stock to the half sister of the emperor Galerius near their family lands around Felix Romuliana; a rural area then in the Danubian region of Moesia, now Eastern Serbia.He...

    460  
Maximus     460   Bishop of Riez
Papinianus (Papinian), Mansuetus, and Companions 453   460  
Placidia
Placidia
Placidia was the wife of Olybrius, Western Roman Emperor. Her full name is uncertain. The Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The reign by reign record of the rulers of Imperial Rome by Chris Scarre gives her name as Galla Placidia Valentiniana or Galla Placidia the Younger, based on Roman naming...

    460  
Valerian     460   Bishop of Cimiez
Vivian     460   Bishop of Saintes
Leo the Great
Pope Leo I
Pope Leo I was pope from September 29, 440 to his death.He was an Italian aristocrat, and is the first pope of the Catholic Church to have been called "the Great". He is perhaps best known for having met Attila the Hun in 452, persuading him to turn back from his invasion of Italy...

    461   Roman pope
Rusticus     462   Bishop of Narbonne
Petronius
Petronius
Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian age.-Life:...

    463   Bishop of Die
Prosper of Aquitaine
Prosper of Aquitaine
Saint Prosper of Aquitaine , a Christian writer and disciple of Saint Augustine of Hippo, was the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle.- Life :...

403   463  
Romanus of Condat
Romanus of Condat
Saint Romanus of Condat is a saint of the fifth century. At the age of thirty five he decided to live as a hermit in the area of Condat. His younger brother Lupicinus followed him there. They became leaders of a community of monks that included Saint Eugendus.Romanus and Lupicinus founded...

390   463  
Benignus
Benignus of Armagh
Saint Benignus of Armagh was the son of Sesenen, an Irish chieftain in that part of Ireland which is now County Meath. He was baptised into the Catholic faith by St. Patrick, and became his favourite disciple and his coadjutor in the Diocese of Armagh around AD 450...

 (Benen)
    466   Bishop of Ireland
Jucunda     466  
Prosper of Reggio
Prosper of Reggio
Saint Prosper of Reggio is an Italian saint. Tradition holds that he was a bishop of Reggio Emilia for twenty-two years. Little is known of his life, but documents attest that he was indeed bishop of Reggio Emilia in the fifth century....

    466  
Shenute 348   466  
Maximus
Maximus of Turin
Saint Maximus of Turin was a bishop and theological writer. Maximus is believed to have been a native of Rhaetia.-Veneration:His name is in the Roman martyrology on 25 June, and the city of Turin honours him as its patron saint. A life which, however, is entirely unreliable, was written after the...

    467   Bishop of Turin
Hilary
Pope Hilarius
Pope Saint Hilarius was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 461 to February 28, 468. He was canonized as a saint after his death....

 (Hilarius)
    468   Roman pope
Abundius
Abundius
Saint Abundius was a Bishop of Como, Northern Italy.He was born at Thessalonica. Around 448 Abundius became the fourth Bishop of Como, succeeding Amantius...

    469   Bishop of Como
Patrick     469   Bishop of Bayeux
Chromatius
Chromatius
Saint Chromatius was a bishop of Aquileia. He was probably born at Aquileia, and in any case grew up there. His father had died when Chromatius was an infant. He was raised by his mother and large family of older siblings....

    470   Bishop of Aquileia
Gratus
Gratus
Gratus, a soldier of Caligula's bodyguard, who, after the assassination of that emperor, discovered and drew Claudius from his hiding-place in the palace, and presented him to the soldiers as a Germanicus, the proper heir to the empire....

    470   Bishop of Aosta
Paternian     470   Bishop of Bologna
Marcian
Marcian
Marcian was Byzantine Emperor from 450 to 457. Marcian's rule marked a recovery of the Eastern Empire, which the Emperor protected from external menaces and reformed economically and financially...

    471  
Benignus of Armagh
Benignus of Armagh
Saint Benignus of Armagh was the son of Sesenen, an Irish chieftain in that part of Ireland which is now County Meath. He was baptised into the Catholic faith by St. Patrick, and became his favourite disciple and his coadjutor in the Diocese of Armagh around AD 450...

    472  
Auxentius of Bithynia
Auxentius of Bithynia
Auxentius of Bithynia was a hermit born circa 400 AD in Syria, and died February 14, 473 on Mount Scopas.Auxentius was in the Equestrian Guard of Roman Emperor Theodosius II, but left to become a solitary monk on Mount Oxia near Constantinople. He was accused of heresy but was exonerated at the...

    473  
Deodatus     473   Bishop of Nola
Bishop of Nola
The Diocese of Nola is a Roman Catholic diocese in Italy, with its seat in the ancient city Nola. The diocese is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Naples....

Dochow     473  
Euthymius the Great
Euthymius the Great
Saint Euthymius , often styled the Great, was an Abbot in Palestine.Venerated in both Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.-Biography:He was born in Melitene in Lesser Armenia...

378   473  
Amabilis
Amabilis of Riom
Saint Amabilis of Riom was a French saint. Sidonius Apollinaris brought Amabilis to serve at Clermont.He served as a cantor in the church of Saint Mary at Clermont and as a precentor at the cathedral of Clermont and then as a parish priest in Riom...

    475  
Eutropius of Orange     475  
Gerasimus     475  
John of Châlons     475   Bishop of Châlons-sur-Saône
Thomais     476  
Benignus     477  
Mamertus
Mamertus
Saint Mamertus was the Archbishop of Vienne in Gaul and is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. His primary contribution to ecclesiastical practice was the introduction of litanies prior to Ascension Day as an intercession against earthquakes and other disasters, leading to "Rogation Days." His...

 (Mamertius)
    477  
Lupus of Troyes
Lupus of Troyes
Saint Lupus was an early bishop of Troyes. Born at Toul, he was brother-in-law to Hilary of Arles, as he had married one of Hilary's sisters, Pimeniola. Lupus worked as a lawyer. However, after being married for six years, he and his wife parted by mutual agreement.Lupus renounced all of his...

 (Loup)
383   478   Bishop of Troyes
Abraham
Abraham
Abraham , whose birth name was Abram, is the eponym of the Abrahamic religions, among which are Judaism, Christianity and Islam...

    480  
Apollinaris Sidonius 423   480   Bishop of Avernum
Flosculus (Flou)     480   Bishop of Orléans
Lupicinus
Lupicinus
Lupicinus was a Roman lieutenant of Valens in Thrace in the late fourth century AD.His reputed poor treatment of the Thervingi Goths under Fritigern lead to the Gothic Wars, and the Battle of Adrianople.-References:...

    480  
Paphnutius     480  
Patiens, Archbishop of Lyons     480  
Rioch
Ríoch
-Biography:Ríoch operated in the extreme west of Conmhaícne Mara, in what is now County Galway. Surviving traditions state that he was a nephew of Saint Patrick, and an abbot of Inisbofin in Lough Dearg...

    480   Bishop of Inisboffin
Senator     480  
Severinus of Noricum     480  
Sidonius Apollinaris
Sidonius Apollinaris
Gaius Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius or Saint Sidonius Apollinaris was a poet, diplomat, and bishop. Sidonius is "the single most important surviving author from fifth-century Gaul" according to Eric Goldberg...

423   480  
Tydfil
Tydfil
Saint Tydfil , Standard Welsh Tudful, was a 5th century female saint associated with Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan, south Wales....

    480  
Veranus
Veranus of Vence
Veranus was Bishop of Vence, Gaul, after a period as a monk. He was the son of St. Eucherius of Lyons.-Notes:...

    480   Bishop of Vence
Virgin Martyrs of North Africa     480  
Severinus     482  
Simplicius
Pope Simplicius
Pope Saint Simplicius was Pope from 468 to March 10, 483.He was born in Tivoli, Italy, the son of a citizen named Castinus. Most of what is known of him is derived from the Liber Pontificalis....

    483   Roman pope
Aquilinus     484  
Denise
Denise, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilianus, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus
Saints Denise , Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilianus, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus are venerated as martyrs by the Catholic Church. They were killed in the late 5th century during the persecution of Trinitarian Christians in Proconsular Africa by the Arian Vandals, according to Victor of Vita. ...

, Majoricus, and companions
    484  
Donation
Donation
A donation is a gift given by physical or legal persons, typically for charitable purposes and/or to benefit a cause. A donation may take various forms, including cash, services, new or used goods including clothing, toys, food, and vehicles...

    484  
Felix, Cyprian, bishops and martyrs, and Companions     484  
Liberatus and Companions     484  
Octovian     484  
Servus
Servus
Servus is a salutation used in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe.These words originates from the Latin word for servant or slave, servus...

    484  
Victorian, Frumentius and Companions
Victorian, Frumentius and Companions
Saints Victorian, Frumentius and Companions are venerated as Christian martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church. They were killed at Adrumetum in 484 by the Arian Vandals. Accounts of their martyrdom state that Huneric, King of the Vandals, began persecuting Catholic priests and virgins in 480, and by...

    484  
Blessed African Martyrs 483   484  
Florentius     485  
Jucundus     485   Bishop of Bologna
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

Vindemialis     485  
Calogerus ("the Anchoret")     486  
Censurius     486   Bishop of Auxerre
Cannatus     487   Bishop of Marseilles
Maughold
Maughold
Saint Maughold of Man is venerated as the patron saint of the Isle of Man...

 (Macull, Maccaldus)
    488  
Macaille     489   Bishop of Croghan
Croghan
Croghan may refer to:In Ireland:* Croghan , County Offaly, Ireland* Croghan, County Roscommon, Ireland* Croghan Hill, County Offaly, Ireland* Croghan Mountain, Wicklow Mountains, IrelandIn the United States:...

Modestus     489   Bishop of Trier
Asicus (Ascicus, Tassach)     490  
Corentin of Quimper
Corentin of Quimper
Saint Corentin is a Breton saint. He is venerated as a saint and as the first bishop of Quimper. His feast day is December 12. He was a hermit at Plomodiern and regarded as one of the seven founder saints of Brittany...

 (Corentinus, Corentius, Cury)
    490   Bishop of Cornouaille (now Quimper)
Faustus of Riez
Faustus of Riez
Saint Faustus of Riez was an early Bishop of Riez in Southern Gaul , the best known and most distinguished defender of Semipelagianism.-Biography:...

    490   Bishop of Riez
Monitor     490   Bishop of Orléans
Tertullian
Tertullian
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian , was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He is the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He also was a notable early Christian apologist and...

    490   Bishop of Bologna
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

Victurius     490   Bishop of Le Mans
Theodora of Alexandria
Theodora of Alexandria
Theodora of Alexandria is an Eastern Orthodox saint and Desert Mother who died in 490 AD.Early in life, Theodora committed adultery. Disguised as a man, she joined a monastery in repentance of her sin under the name Theodore. Her true identity as a woman was discovered after her death...

    491  
Canog (Cenneur)     492  
Felix III
Pope Felix III
Pope Saint Felix III was pope from March 13, 483 to january 3, 492. His repudiation of the Henoticon is considered the beginning of the Acacian schism.-Biography:...

    492   Roman pope
Daniel the Stylite
Daniel the Stylite
Saint Daniel the Stylite is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox, and Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic Churches. He was born in a village by the name of Maratha in upper Mesopotamia near Samosata, in today what is now a region of Turkey. He entered a monastery at the age of twelve and lived there...

409   493  
Moelray (Moeliai)     493  
Patrick
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....

    493   Bishop of Ireland
John I Angeloptes     494   Bishop of Ravenna
Bishop of Ravenna
This page is a list of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops of Ravenna, and of the Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia. The earlier ones were frequently tied to the Exarchate of Ravenna. -Diocese of Ravenna :*St. Apollinare, legendarily to 79, historically in the era of Septimius Severus*St...

Perpetuus
Saint Perpetuus
Saint Perpetuus was the sixth Bishop of Tours, from 460 to 490. He succeeded his relative, probably an uncle, Eustochius, and was succeeded by another close relative, Saint Volusianus....

    494   Bishop of Tours
Dominator     495   Bishop of Brescia
Tassach (Asicus)     495   Bishop of Rahoip
Pope Athanasius II
Pope Athanasius II of Alexandria
Athanasius II of Alexandria was the Coptic Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria from 490 until his death. He was a Miaphysite.He succeeded Peter III Mongus as Pope of Alexandria and reigned for seven years...

    496   Coptic pope
Epiphanius of Pavia
Epiphanius of Pavia
Epiphanius of Pavia , later venerated as Saint Epiphanius of Pavia, was Bishop of Pavia from 466 until his death in 496. Epiphanius additionally held the offices of lector, subdeacon and deacon....

438   496  
Firminus of Metz     496   Bishop of Metz
Gelasius I
Pope Gelasius I
Pope Saint Gelasius I was pope from 492 until his death in 496. He was the third and last bishop of Rome of African origin in the Catholic Church. Gelasius was a prolific writer whose style placed him on the cusp between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages...

    496   Roman pope
Samuel of Edessa     496  
Volusian     496  
Apronia
Apronia
Saint Apronia was a nun and saint of the sixth century. She was born near Trier, and was the sister of Bishop Saint Aprus of Toul, from whom she received the veil. She is recorded as having died at a convent in Troyes. Her feast day is July 15....

 (Evronie)
    500  
Domangard (Donard)     500  
Fibitius     500   Bishop of Trier
Georgia of Clermont
Georgia of Clermont
Saint Georgia was a nun and hermitess near Clermont, Auvergne. Her feast day is 15 February.-External links:** at St. Patrick's Church...

    500  
Gunthiern
Gunthiern
Gurthiern was a Welsh prince who, according to the Vita sancta Gurthierni, became a hermit in Brittany, and founder of an abbey at Kemperle .He is a Catholic saint, feast day July 3-External links:*...

    500  
Gwynllyw
Gwynllyw
Saint Gwynllyw Milwr or Gwynllyw Farfog, known in English in a corrupted form as Woolos the Warrior or Woolos the Bearded was a Welsh king and religious figure....

 (Woollos, Gundleus)
    500  
Habet Deus     500   Bishop of Luna
Honorata     500  
James the Syrian     500  
Mathurin
Maturinus
Saint Maturinus, or Mathurin was a French exorcist and missionary venerated as a saint.The first source to mention Maturinus is the Martyrology of Usuard, written in 875. In the next century, a biography of Maturinus was composed. According to his legend, Maturinus was born in Larchant. His...

 (Maturinus)
    500  
Philomena
Philomena
Saint Philomena is venerated as a virgin martyr saint of the Catholic Church, said to have been a young Greek princess martyred in the 4th century. Her veneration began in the early 19th century after the archaeological discovery in the Catacombs of Priscilla of the bones of a young woman, which...

    500  
Valentinian     500   Bishop of Salerno

See also

  • Christianity in the 5th century
    Christianity in the 5th century
    The 5th century would see further fracturing of the State church of the Roman Empire. Emperor Theodosius II called two synods in Ephesus, one in 431 and one in 449 AD, that addressed the teachings of then-Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius and similar teachings...

  • List of Church Fathers
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