Chronological list of saints and blesseds: 6
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A list of 6th century saints:
NameBirthBirthplaceDeathPlace of deathNotes
Gerontius
Gerontius of Cervia
Gerontius of Cervia was an Italian bishop of Cervia who is venerated as a saint. After he was murdered by bandits on the Via Flaminia at Cagli, near Ancona, on his return from a synod at Rome, he was venerated as a martyr. His feast day is May 9....

    501   Bishop of Cervia
Eugenius of Carthage
Eugenius of Carthage
Saint Eugenius of Carthage was a Christian saint, unanimously elected Bishop of Carthage in 480 to succeed Deogratias . He was caught up in the disputes of his day between Arianism and mainstream Christianity.-Biography:...

    505  
Vigilius     506   Bishop of Brescia
Aprus
Aprus
Saint Aprus was a bishop of Toul from 500 to 507. The brother of Saint Apronia , he was born near Trier. He may have studied as a lawyer. After entering the priesthood, Aprus was appointed bishop of Toul.-Veneration:...

 (Aper, Epvre, Evre)
    507   Bishop of Toul
Severinus     507  
Ursus
Ursus of Auxerre
Saint Ursus of Auxerre was bishop of that city in the 6th century. He had been a hermit at the church of Saint Amator before being elected bishop at the age of 75. It is said he was elected after he had saved the town from a fire by his prayers.-External links:*...

    508   Bishop of Auxerre
Brieuc (Brioc, Briocus, Briomaglus) 420   510  
Contentius
Contentius
Contentius was bishop of Bayeux from 480 until his death.He is a Catholic and Orthodox saint, feast day January 19....

    510   Bishop of Bayeux
Eugendus
Eugendus
Saint Eugendus was the fourth abbot of Condat Abbey, at Saint-Claude, Jura. He was born at Izernore.-Life:He was instructed in reading and writing by his father, who had become a priest, and at the age of seven was given to Saint Romanus and Saint Lupicinus to be educated at Condat Abbey....

 (Oyend)
449   510  
Marcellus     510   Bishop of Die
Pabo
Pabo Post Prydain
Pabo Post Prydain was a king somewhere in the Hen Ogledd or Old North of sub-Roman Britain.According to the Old Welsh genealogies of British Library, Harleian MS 3859, he was a son of Cenau ap Coel Hen...

    510  
Bron
Bron
Bron is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.It lies east of Lyon. It is the sixth-largest suburb of the city of Lyon, and is adjacent to its east side. It forms part of the Urban Community of Lyon.-History:...

    511   Bishop of Cassel-lrra
Maximus
Maximus of Pavia
Maximus was Bishop of Pavia. He was in attendance at councils of Rome convened under Pope Symmachus.-References:...

    511   Bishop of Pavia
Flavian
Flavian II of Antioch
Flavian II of Antioch , bishop or patriarch of Antioch, was chosen by the Emperor Anastasius I to succeed Palladius, most probably in 498....

    512  
Genevieve
Genevieve
St Genevieve , in Latin Sancta Genovefa, from Germanic keno and wefa , is the patron saint of Paris in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition...

422   512  
Paschasius     512  
Dubtach     513  
Spes
Spes
In ancient Roman religion, Spes was the goddess of hope. Multiple temples to Spes are known, and inscriptions indicate that she received private devotion as well as state cult.-Republican Hope:...

    513  
Angus MacNisse
Angus MacNisse
Saint Mac Nisse was an early Irish saint known as the founder and first bishop-abbot of Connor . In the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, he is said to have been a disciple of St. Olcán, Bishop of Armoy....

 (Macanisius)
    514   Bishop of Connor
Bishop of Connor
The Bishop of Connor is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Connor in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The title is currently used by the Church of Ireland, but in the Roman Catholic Church it has been united with another bishopric....

Godardus     514   Bishop of Rouen
Symmachus
Pope Symmachus
Saint Symmachus was pope from 498 to 514. His tenure was marked by a serious schism over who was legitimately elected pope by the citizens of Rome....

    514   pope
Abran
Abran
Saint Abran , also known as Gibrian, was a 6th-century Irish hermit in Brittany.He was born in Ireland and with eight of his siblings traveled to Brittany. St. Abran and his siblings chose of life of devotion to God in the consecrated religious life...

 (Gibrian)
    515  
Heraclius
Heraclius
Heraclius was Byzantine Emperor from 610 to 641.He was responsible for introducing Greek as the empire's official language. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, Heraclius the Elder, the exarch of Africa, successfully led a revolt against the unpopular usurper Phocas.Heraclius'...

    515   Bishop of Sens
Maxentius
Maxentius
Maxentius was a Roman Emperor from 306 to 312. He was the son of former Emperor Maximian, and the son-in-law of Emperor Galerius.-Birth and early life:Maxentius' exact date of birth is unknown; it was probably around 278...

445   515  
Hywyn     516  
Theodosius     516   Bishop of Auxerre
Beoadh (Aeodh)     518   Bishop of Ardcarne
Elias
Elias
Elias is the Latin transliteration of the Greek name , which in turn is the Hellenized form of the , meaning "Yahweh is my God". Another form of Eliyahu in English is Elijah.The name belonged most notably to Elijah , the Hebrew prophet...

    518  
Monennaa (Darerca of Killeevy)     518  
Conleth (Conlaed)     519  
Peter II
Peter II
Peter II may refer to:* Pope Peter II of Alexandria * Peter Delyan of Bulgaria , leader of the Macedonian uprising against the Byzantine Empire* Peter IV of Bulgaria or Peter II, Emperor of Bulgaria 1185–1197...

    519  
Apollinaris of Valence 453   520   Bishop of Vienne
Aventinus     520   Bishop of Chartres
Clether (Citanus, Cleer, Cleodius, Clydog, Cledog)     520  
Conleth     520  
Constantius     520   Bishop of Aquino
Emilian     520   Bishop of Vercelli
Enodoch     520  
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...

 (Mesmin)
    520  
Pragmatius     520  
Terence
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer , better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on,...

    520   Bishop of Metz
Ennodius
Magnus Felix Ennodius
Magnus Felix Ennodius was Bishop of Pavia in 514, and a Latin rhetorician and poet.He was one of four fifth to sixth-century Gallo-Roman aristocrats whose letters survive in quantity: the others are Sidonius Apollinaris, prefect of Rome in 468 and bishop of Clermont , Ruricius bishop of Limoges ...

473   521   Bishop of Pavia
Verecundus     522   Bishop of Verona
Arethas and Companions     523  
Blath (Flora)     523  
Hormisdas
Pope Hormisdas
Pope Saint Hormisdas was Pope from July 20, 514 to 523. His papacy was dominated by the Acacian schism, started in 484 by Acacius of Constantinople's efforts to placate the Monophysites...

    523   pope
Darulagdach (Dardulacha)     524  
Severinus Boethius 480   524  
Sigismund of Burgundy
Sigismund of Burgundy
Sigismund was king of the Burgundians from 516 to his death. He was the son of king Gundobad, whom he succeeded in 516. Sigismund and his brother Godomar were defeated in battle by Clovis' sons and Godomar fled. Sigismund was taken by Chlodomer, King of Orléans, where he was kept as a prisoner. He...

    524  
Viventiolus
Viventiolus
Saint Viventiolus was the Archbishop of Lyon , from the year of 514. Later canonized, his Feast Day is July 12. He was the son of Aquilinus , Nobleman at Lyon, schoolfellow and friend of Sidonius Apollinaris, the grandson of ... of Lyon Saint Viventiolus (460 – July 12, 524) was the...

, Archbishop of Lyons
    524  
Avitus
Avitus
Eparchius Avitus was Western Roman Emperor from July 8 or July 9, 455 to October 17, 456. A Gallic-Roman aristocrat, he was a senator and a high-ranking officer both in the civil and military administration, as well as Bishop of Piacenza.A representative of the Gallic-Roman aristocracy, he...

    525   Bishop of Vienne
Brigid
Brigid
In Irish mythology, Brigit or Brighid was the daughter of the Dagda and one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. She was the wife of Bres of the Fomorians, with whom she had a son, Ruadán....

435   525  
Camelian     525   Bishop of Troyes
Deodatus     525  
Vitonus
Vitonus
Saint Vitonus , also called Vanne or Vaune, became a monk as a young man and was made Bishop of Verdun, c.500. Vitonus converted all the pagan residents in the area, and was known for performing miracles....

 (Vanne, Vaune)
    525   Bishop of Verdun
Ailbe (Ailbhe, Albeus)     526   Bishop of Emily
Florentius of Orange     526   Bishop of Orange
John I
Pope John I
Pope Saint John I was Pope from 523 to 526. He was a native of Siena or the Castello di Serena, near Chiusdino. He is the first pope known to have visited Constantinople while in office....

    526   pope
Justus
Justus
Justus was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism, probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601...

    527   Bishop of Urgel
Quintian     527   Bishop of Clermont
Turibius of Palencia     528  
Caesaria     529  
Theodosius the Cenobiarch
Theodosius the Cenobiarch
Theodosius the Cenobiarch was a monk, abbot, and saint.He was born in Mogarissos, a village in Cappadocia, Saint Basil's province. Theodosius' parents Proheresius and Eulogia were both very pious. Later Eulogia would become a nun taking her son Theodosius as her spiritual father...

423   529  
Cannera (Cainder or Kinnera)     530  
Ciaran
Ciarán
Ciarán , Ciaran in Scottish Gaelic, Ceiran, Kieran, Keeran, Kyran, Kiaran, Keiran, Kieren, Kieron, Keiron or Kiernan , is a personal name meaning "small dark one". Ciarán comes from the Irish word "Ciar" which means black or dark. Ciar can be linked back to Ciar, son of Fergus, King of Ulster...

 (Keiran) Saighir (Kevin the Elder)
    530   Bishop of Ossory
Bishop of Ossory
The Bishop of Ossory is an episcopal title which takes its name after the ancient of Kingdom of Ossory in the Province of Leinster, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics.-History:The diocese of Ossory...

Dositheus of Gaza     530  
Kieran     530   Bishop of Ossory
Bishop of Ossory
The Bishop of Ossory is an episcopal title which takes its name after the ancient of Kingdom of Ossory in the Province of Leinster, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics.-History:The diocese of Ossory...

Remigius
Saint Remigius
Saint Remigius, Remy or Remi, , was Bishop of Reims and Apostle of the Franks, . On 24 December 496 he baptised Clovis I, King of the Franks...

 (Remi)
437   530   Bishop of Reims
Samson of Constantinople (Samson Xenodochius ("the Hospitable"))     530  
Severus     530  
Valens
Valens
Valens was the Eastern Roman Emperor from 364 to 378. He was given the eastern half of the empire by his brother Valentinian I after the latter's accession to the throne...

    531   Bishop of Verona
Ecclesius     532   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...

Eleutherius of Tournai
Eleutherius of Tournai
Saint Eleutherius of Tournai is venerated as a saint and considered the first bishop of Tournai. The Catholic Encyclopedia writes that "historically there is very little known about St. Eleutherius, but he was without doubt the first Bishop of Tournai." Tradition makes him a lifelong friend of St...

    532   Bishop of Tournai
Portian     532  
Sabbas
Sabbas the Sanctified
Saint Sabbas the Sanctified , a Cappadocian-Greek monk, priest and saint, lived mainly in Palaestina Prima. He was the founder of several monasteries, most notably the one known as Mar Saba...

439   532  
Fulgentius of Ruspe
Fulgentius of Ruspe
Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe was bishop of the city of Ruspe, North Africa, in the 5th and 6th century who was canonized as a Christian saint...

468   533   Bishop of Ruspe
Theodoric (Thierry)     533  
Trojanus of Saintes
Trojanus of Saintes
Trojanus of Saintes was a sixth-century bishop of Saintes, in France. He is mentioned in semi-legendary terms by Gregory of Tours. He is identified with the author of a surviving letter to Eumerius of Nantes....

 (Trojan, Troyen)
    533   Bishop of Saintes
Donatus     535  
Hilary     535   Bishop of Mende
Melaine
Melaine
Saint Melaine was a 6th century Bishop of Rennes in Brittany .-Traditional history:...

    535   Bishop of Rennes
Mochta
Mochta
Saint Mochta or Mochtae , in Latin sources Maucteus or Mauchteus, was a disciple of St. Patrick.He was, like Patrick, a native of Britain. His name is British, and Adomnán's Life of Columba describes him as "a certain British stranger, a holy man and a disciple of the holy bishop Patrick"...

    535   Bishop of Ireland
Victor of Vita     535   Bishop of Carthage or Utica
Agapitus I     536   pope
Carilefus (Calais)     536  
Pomponius
Pomponius of Naples
Pomponius was Bishop of Naples, known for his opposition of Arianism. Theodoric the Great, ruled most of the Italian Peninsula, at the time at which Pomponius was the head of his see. Theodoric was known as an Arian, but Pomponius remained firm in his convictions.-References:...

    536   Bishop of Naples
Titan     536   Bishop of Brescia
Fortunatus
Fortunatus
Fortunatus is a German proto-novel or chapbook about a legendary hero popular in 15th and 16th century Europe.-The tale:The tale follows the life of a young man named Fortunatus from relative obscurity through his adventures towards fame and fortune; it subsequently follows the careers of his two...

    537   Bishop of Todi
Vigor
Saint Vigor
Saint Vigor was a French bishop and Christian missionary. Born in Artois, he studied at Arras under Saint Vedast. Against the opposition of his father, he became a priest, running away from home to become one. He became a preaching hermit at Ravière and worked as a missionary...

    537   Bishop of Bayeux
Aventine of Troyes     538  
Silverius     538   pope
Gregory     539   Bishop of Langres
Vedast
Vedast
Saint Vedast or Vedastus, also known as Saint Vaast or Saint Waast and Saint Gaston in French, Saint Vedast or Vedastus, also known as Saint Vaast (in Flemish, Norman, and Picard) or Saint Waast (also in Picard and Walloon) and Saint Gaston in French, Saint Vedast or Vedastus, also known as Saint...

 (Vaast)
    539   Bishop of Arras
Berthaldus (Bertaud)     540  
Carthach     540  
David of Thessalonica     540  
Fidouls (Fal, Phal)     540  
Jarlath
Jarlath
Saint Iarlaithe mac Loga, also known as Jarlath , was an Irish priest and scholar from Connacht, remembered as the founder of the monastic School of Tuam and patron saint of the Archdiocese of Tuam...

445   540   Bishop of Tuam
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tuam
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tuam is a Roman Catholic archdiocese in western Ireland. According to tradition, the "Diocese of Tuam" was established in the sixth century by St. Jarlath...

Justin of Chieti
Justin of Chieti
Saint Justin of Chieti is venerated as an early bishop of Chieti, Italy. His date of death varies, and is sometimes given as the 3rd, 4th, or 6th centuries.Historical evidence for Justin's existence from before the 15th century does not exist...

    540  
Lupus     540   Bishop of Soissons
Romanus the Melodist     540  
Severinus     540  
Gallicanus
Gallicanus
Gallicanus was a Roman name.* Gallicanus was Roman consul in 330, possibly the historical figure behind the first Saint Gallicanus.The following saints of this name are commemorated on 25 June:...

    541   Bishop of Embrun
Leo     541   Bishop of Sens
Leontius the Elder     541   Bishop of Bordeaux
Placidus and companions     541  
Caesarius
Caesarius
Caesarius may refer to:* Caesarius of Africa, 3rd century Christian*Caesarius of Nazianzus, physician and politician of the 4th century, and the younger brother of Gregory of Nazianzus...

470   542   Bishop of Arles
Lupus, Archbishop of Lyons     542  
Caesarius of Arles     543  
Firminus     543   Bishop of Uzès
Scholastica
Scholastica
Scholastica is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Italy, she was the twin sister of St. Benedict of Nursia....

480   543  
David
David
David was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible and, according to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, an ancestor of Jesus Christ through both Saint Joseph and Mary...

 (Dewi)
    544   Bishop of Wales
John of Reomay 444   544  
Laurianus     544  
Venantius 490   544   Bishop of Viviers
Clotilda     545  
Dubricus (Devereux, Dubric, Dyfrig)     545  
Paulinus     545   Bishop of Brescia
Regulus
Regulus
Regulus is the brightest star in the constellation Leo and one of the brightest stars in the night sky, lying approximately 77.5 light years from Earth. Regulus is a multiple star system composed of four stars which are organized into two pairs...

    545  
Speciosus     545  
Benedicta     546  
Cyprian of Toulon
Cyprian of Toulon
Saint Cyprian of Toulon was bishop of Toulon during the 6th century. Born at Marseilles, he was the favorite pupil of St. Caesarius of Arles by whom he was trained. Caesarius ordained him in 506 to the diaconate, and, in 516, consecrated him as bishop of Toulon.St...

476   546   Bishop of Toulon
Lawrence Majoranus     546   Bishop of Siponto
Vincent
Vincent
Vincent is the French version of a masculine name. As Spanish Vicente, it is derived from the Latin name Vincentius meaning "conquering"...

    546   Bishop of Troyes
Benedict of Nursia
Benedict of Nursia
Saint Benedict of Nursia is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students.Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, about to the east of Rome, before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. There is no...

480   547  
Columba
Columba
Saint Columba —also known as Colum Cille , Colm Cille , Calum Cille and Kolban or Kolbjørn —was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period...

    548  
Licerius (Lizier)     548   Bishop of Couserans
Aecadius     549   Bishop of Bourges
Albinus
Albinus of Angers
Saint Albinus of Angers was a French abbot and bishop. Born to a noble Gallo-Roman family at Vannes, Brittany, St. Albinus was a monk and afterwards Abbot of Tintillac . His reputation spread during the twenty-five years in which he served as abbot. In 529, St...

 (Aubin)
    549   Bishop of Angers
Finnian of Clonard
Finnian of Clonard
Saint Finnian of Clonard , or Finian, 'Fionán' or 'Fionnán' in Irish, was one of the early Irish monastic saints, who founded Clonard Abbey in modern-day County Meath. The Twelve Apostles of Ireland studied under him...

    549  
Herculanus
Herculanus of Perugia
Saint Herculanus of Perugia was a bishop of Perugia and is patron saint of that city. His main feast day is November 7; his second feast is celebrated on March 1...

    549   Bishop of Perugia
Melan
Melan
Melan is a municipality in the Dibër District, Dibër County, northeastern Albania....

    549   Bishop of Viviers
Tigernach of Clones
Tigernach of Clones
Tigernach was one of the saints of the territory ruled by the Uí Chremthainn dynasty, together with Mac Caírthinn of Clogher and Mo Laisse of Devenish. His principal foundation is Clones, which lay in the western part of Fernmag, an area ruled by the Uí Chremthainn branch Uí Nad Sluaig...

 (Tierney, Tierry)
    549   Bishop of Clogher
Bishop of Clogher
The Bishop of Clogher is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Clogher in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Following the Reformation, there are now parallel apostolic successions: one of the Church of Ireland and the other of the Roman Catholic Church.-History:Clogher is one...

Barsanuphius     550  
Benedict of Campania (Benedict the Hermit)     550  
Desideratus
Desideratus
Desideratus was a French saint in the Christian church from Soissons. Unusually, he came from a family of saints, as his father, Auginus, mother, Agia, and brother, Deodatus, were all canonized...

    550   Bishop of Bourges
Emiliana
Trasilla and Emiliana
Saints Trasilla and Emiliana were aunts of St. Gregory the Great, and venerated as virgin saints of the sixth century. They appear in the Roman Martyrology, the former on 24 December, the latter on 5 January....

    550  
Galla
Galla of Rome
-Life:Galla was the daughter of Roman patrician Symmachus the Younger, who was appointed consul in 485. Galla was also the sister-in-law of Boethius. Her father, Symmachus the Younger, was condemned to death, unjustly, by Theodoric in 525. Galla was then married but was soon widowed, just over a...

    550 Rome
Guenhael (Gwenhael)     550  
Isaac of Spoleto     550  
Leo     550  
Liphardus     550  
Modomnoc
Modomnoc
Modomnoc was an Irish saint and missionary who was a disciple of St. David of Wales and a member of the O'Neill royal family. According to legend, he introduced bees to Ireland when a swarm followed him from his monastery in Wales where he had been a beekeeper to his native Ireland.-External...

 (Domnoc, Dominic)
    550  
Optatian     550   Bishop of Brescia
Pastor
Pastor
The word pastor usually refers to an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, this role may be abbreviated to "Pr." or often "Ps"....

    550   Bishop of Orléans
Paternus
Paternus
Saint Paternus of Avranches in Normandy was born around the year 482, although the exact year is unknown, in Poitiers, Poitou. He was born into a Christian family. His father Patranus went to Ireland to spend his days as a hermit in holy solitude. Because of this, Paternus embraced religious life....

 (Padarn)
490   550  
Severinus     550   Bishop of Septempeda
Theodore     550   Bishop of Bologna
Tressan
Tressan
Tressan is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France....

 (Tresian)
    550  
Triverius     550  
Gall 486   551   Bishop of Clermont
Sacerdos
Sacerdos of Lyon
Saint Sacerdos of Lyon is a French saint whose Feast Day is September 12. He was Archbishop of Lyon, France from 544 to September 12, 551. He was the son of St. Rusticus, Archbishop of Lyon, and wife....

 (Sardot, Serdon)
    551   Bishop of Lyon
Datius     552  
Mennas (Menas)     552  
Anastasius IX     553   Bishop of Terni
Laetus     553  
Theodosius     554   Bishop of Vaison
Victor
Victor of Capua
Victor of Capua was a sixth-century bishop of Capua, in Italy.About his life nothing is known except what is found in his epitaph , which has been preserved, though the tomb itself has disappeared. This inscription simply states that his episcopate of thirteen years ended in April, 554...

    554   Bishop of Capua
Vincent of Leon     554  
Elesbaan     555  
Marius (Maurus or May)     555  
Bandaridus (Banderik, Bandarinus, Bandery)     556   Bishop of Soissons
Kieran the Younger (Ciaran)     556  
Leobinus
Leobinus
Saint Leobinus was a hermit, abbot, and bishop. The son of a peasant family, he became a hermit and a monk of Micy before being ordained a priest. He was then elected abbot of Brou and then around 544, became Bishop of Chartres, succeeding Etherius with the consent of Childebert I.-External...

 (Lubin)
    556   Bishop of Chartres
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...

    556   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...

Lubin
Lubin
Lubin is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. From 1975–1998 it belonged to the former Legnica Voivodeship. Lubin is the administrative seat of Lubin County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Lubin, although it is not part of the territory of the latter,...

 (Leobinus)
    557  
Cassius of Narni
Cassius of Narni
Saint Cassius is venerated as a saint. He was a bishop of Narni in Umbria from 537 to 558, the date of his death. He was praised by St. Gregory the Great, and was noted for his charity. Cassius died at Rome after going on pilgrimage there. Cassius was married; his wife's name was Fausta...

    558   Bishop of Narni
Hilary of Galeata
Hilary of Galeata
Saint Hilary of Galeata is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. His feast day is May 15....

    558  
John the Silent
John the Silent
John the Silent is a Christian saint. He was born in Nicopolis and after the death of his parents in 471 founded a monastery. In 482 he was made Bishop of Taxara, Armenia and left the office nine years later to become a recluse in the monastery of St. Sabas.St...

454   558   Bishop of Colonia
Marculf (Marcoul)     558  
Victorian of Asan
Victorian of Asan
Saint Victorian of Asan was a Spanish saint. A native of Italy, he founded monasteries and hospices there before settling briefly in France.He became the founder and abbot of the monastery of Asan...

    558  
Christine
Christine
Christine is a horror novel by Stephen King, published in 1983. It tells the story of a vintage automobile apparently possessed by supernatural forces...

    559  
Leonard of Noblac
Leonard of Noblac
Leonard of Noblac or of Limoges or de Noblet , is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in Haute-Vienne, in the Limousin of France.-Traditional biography:According to the romance that...

    559  
Martyrs of North Africa     559  
Almirus     560  
Aspasius
Aspasius
Aspasius was a Peripatetic philosopher. Boethius, who frequently refers to his works, says that Aspasius wrote commentaries on most of the works of Aristotle. The following commentaries are expressly mentioned: on De Interpretatione, the Physica, Metaphysica, Categoriae, and the Nicomachean Ethics...

    560   Bishop of Eauze
Cloud
Cloud
A cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water and/or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body. They are also known as aerosols. Clouds in Earth's atmosphere are studied in the cloud physics branch of meteorology...

 (Clodoald)
522   560  
Domitian
Domitian of Huy
Domitian of Huy was a Gaulish bishop of the sixth century who is noted for both his generosity and writings against heresy. He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.-Life:...

    560   Bishop of Maastricht
Dorotheus of Gaza
Dorotheus of Gaza
Dorotheus of Gaza or Abba Dorotheus was a Christian monk and abbot. He joined the monastery Abba Serid near Gaza through the influence of elders Barsanuphius and John. Around 540 he founded his own monastery nearby and became abbot there...

500   560  
Equitius
Equitius
Saint Equitius was an abbot of the 6th century. He was born between 480 and 490 in the region of Valeria Suburbicaria . Gregory the Great refers to Equitius in his Dialogues , and states that Equitius was a follower of Saint Benedict of Nursia...

    560  
Finian Lobhar     560  
Fridolin     560  
Germerius
Germerius
Saint Germerius was bishop of Toulouse from 510 to 560 AD. There is some question as to whether he actually existed. He is the patron saint of the abbey of Lézat.He was a native of Angoulême, or possibly of Jerusalem....

 (Germier)
480   560   Bishop of Toulouse
Himerius
Himerius of Cremona
Himerius of Cremona , also known as Himerius of Amelia or Irnerius, was an Italian bishop. He is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and Christian communities of Western Rite Orthodoxy....

    560   Bishop of Amelia
Kessog
Kessog
Saint Kessog was an Irish missionary of the mid-sixth century active in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire. Kessog was Scotland's patron saint before Saint Andrew, and his name was used as a battle cry by the Scots. Son of the king of Cashel in Ireland, Kessog is said to have worked miracles,...

 (Mackessag)
    560   Bishop of Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

Medard     560   Bishop of Vermandois
Sacerdos of Saguntum
Sacerdos of Saguntum
Saint Sacerdos of Saguntum is a Spanish saint. He is venerated as a bishop of Saguntum . He is patron saint of this town. He is said to have died of natural causes.-External links:*...

    560   Bishop of Saguntum
Senan 488   560   Bishop of Iniscathay
Eleutherius     561   Bishop of Auxerre
Salvinus     562   Bishop of Verona
Odhran (Oran, Otteran)     563  
Scannal     563  
Abundius
Abundius the Sacristan
Saint Abundius the Sacristan was a sacristan of the Church of Saint Peter in Rome. His holy life was reportedly an inspiration to all who knew him. Saint Gregory the Great wrote a story of his life...

    564  
Paternus
Paternus
Saint Paternus of Avranches in Normandy was born around the year 482, although the exact year is unknown, in Poitiers, Poitou. He was born into a Christian family. His father Patranus went to Ireland to spend his days as a hermit in holy solitude. Because of this, Paternus embraced religious life....

 (Pair)
481   564   Bishop of Avranches
Pient     564  
Tudwal (Pabu, Tugdual)     564   Bishop of Treher
Leontius the Younger     565   Bishop of Bordeaux
Samson
Samson
Samson, Shimshon ; Shamshoun or Sampson is the third to last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh ....

485   565   Bishop of Dol
Bandry (Bandarid)     566  
Nicetius
Nicetius
Saint Nicetius was a bishop of Trier, born in the latter part of the fifth century, exact date unknown; died in 563 or more probably 566....

    566   Bishop of Trier
Sabinus of Canosa
Sabinus of Canosa
Saint Sabinus of Canosa , venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic church, was bishop of Canosa di Puglia from 514.-Life:...

    566   Bishop of Canosa
Auxanus (Ansano)     568   Bishop of Milan
Lauto (Laudo, Laudus, Lo)     568   Bishop of Constance
Villicus
Villicus
Vilicus , was a slave who had the superintendence of the villa rustica, and of all the business of the farm, except the cattle, which were under the care of the magister pecoris...

    568   Bishop of Metz
Desideratus
Desideratus
Desideratus was a French saint in the Christian church from Soissons. Unusually, he came from a family of saints, as his father, Auginus, mother, Agia, and brother, Deodatus, were all canonized...

    569  
Fortunatus
Fortunatus
Fortunatus is a German proto-novel or chapbook about a legendary hero popular in 15th and 16th century Europe.-The tale:The tale follows the life of a young man named Fortunatus from relative obscurity through his adventures towards fame and fortune; it subsequently follows the careers of his two...

 ("the Philosopher")
    569  
Anastasius X     570  
Armagillus (Armel, Ermel, Ervan)     570  
Consortia     570  
Constantian (Constantianus)     570  
Fidelis     570   Bishop of Mérida
Gildas the Wise     570  
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...

    570   Bishop of Milan
Ita
Saint Ita
Íte ingen Chinn Fhalad , also known as Ita, Ida or Ides, was an early Irish nun and saint, patron of Killeedy . Her feast day is 15 January....

 (Ida)
    570  
Leonard of Vandoeuvre     570  
Leonianus     570  
Monegundis
Monegundis
Monegundis was a Frankish hermit and saint. A native of Chartres, she married and bore her husband daughters. When her daughters died in childhood, she decided to become an anchorite after a long depression, and after receiving permission from her husband...

    570  
Quintius (Quintin)     570  
Sedna     570   Bishop of Ossory
Bishop of Ossory
The Bishop of Ossory is an episcopal title which takes its name after the ancient of Kingdom of Ossory in the Province of Leinster, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics.-History:The diocese of Ossory...

Moloc (Luan, Lugaidh, Molvanus, Molluog, Murlach)     572  
Sylvia
Saint Silvia
Saint Silvia was the mother of St. Gregory the Great; she had another son but his name did not survive through the ages. She is also venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church...

    572  
Tetricus     572   Bishop of Langres
Brendan of Birr
Brendan of Birr
Saint Brendan of Birr was one of the early Irish monastic saints. He was a monk and later an abbot, of the 6th century. He was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.- Early life :...

    573  
Euphronius (Eufroy)     573  
Paul Aurelian
Paul Aurelian
Paul Aurelian is a 6th century Welsh saint, who became one of the seven founder saints of Brittany....

    573   Bishop of León
Emilian of Cogolla 474   574  
Rusticus     574   Bishop of Trier
Calupan     575  
Chef or Theodoric or Theuderius     575  
Goar
Goar
Goar was a leader of the Alans in 5th-century Gaul. He led his followers over the Rhine during the multi-tribe invasion of Gaul in 406, but quickly joined the Romans, and subsequently played a role in the internal politics of Gaul.-Invasion of Gaul:Goar is first mentioned in Gregory of Tours's...

495   575  
Maglorius (Maelor)     575  
Theodore (Chef, Theudar, Theuderius)     575  
Anastasia the Patrician
Anastasia the Patrician
Saint Anastasia the Patrician was the wife of a consul and a lady-in-waiting to the Byzantine empress Theodora. Justinian I, Theodora's husband, pursued her, arousing Theodora's jealousy. Anastasia tried to avoid any trouble and left for Egypt...

    576  
Germanus
Germain of Paris
Saint Germain was a bishop of Paris, who was canonized in 754. He is known in his early vita as pater et pastor populi, rendered in modern times as the "Father of the Poor".-Biography:...

 (Germain)
469   576   Bishop of Paris
Lawrence the Illuminator     576   Bishop of Spoleto
Senoch
Senoch
Saint Senoch was a Taifal abbot and saint. He was born in Tiffauges, in Poitou. He founded a monastery in 536, serving as abbot. They established themselves at a place now called Saint-Senoch, which was the site of some Roman ruins. St...

536   576  
Friard 511   577  
Patroclus
Patroclus of Bourges
Saint Patroclus of Bourges was a Merovingian ascetic, who was a native of the province of Berry, France. In his Historia Francorum, Gregory of Tours writes that Patroclus became a priest during his youth, and would drink nothing stronger than water that had been sweetened with honey...

497   577  
Brendan
Brendan
Saint Brendan of Clonfert or Bréanainn of Clonfert called "the Navigator", "the Voyager", or "the Bold" is one of the early Irish monastic saints. He is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the "Isle of the Blessed," also called St. Brendan's Island. The Voyage of St...

486   578  
Philip     578   Bishop of Vienne
Finnian
Finnian of Moville
Finnian of Movilla Abbey, Irish Christian missionary, 495–589.-Origins and life:Finnian was a Christian missionary who became a legendary figure in medieval Ireland. He should not to be confused with his namesake Finnian of Clonard...

 (Finian, Winin)
    579  
Martyrs of Campania     579  
Quinidius
Quinidius
Quinidius was a French saint. He was born at Vaison-la-Romaine to a noble Christian family. As a young man, he became a hermit near Toulon and then at Lérins Abbey to devote himself to a life of prayer and asceticism....

    579   Bishop of Vaison
Agricola 497   580   Bishop of Chalon-sur-Saône
Baldegundis     580  
Caletricus     580   Bishop of Chartres
Dalmatius
Dalmatius of Rodez
Saint Dalmatius of Rodez was a bishop of Rodez from 524 to 580. He is considered by the Catholic Church to have suffered at the hands of Amalaric, who was a follower of Arianism. Dalmatius’ testament requested from Childebert II that the bishop’s successor not be a stranger to the see, or...

    580   Bishop of Rodez
Droctoveus (Droctonius, Drotte)     580  
Elaphius     580   Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne
Felix of Bourges
Felix of Bourges
Felix of Bourges was a bishop of Bourges who later became recognized as a saint.Relatively few details of Felix's life are known. He is known to have been consecrated bishop by Germain of Paris. He is also known to have taken part in the Council of Paris in 573...

    580  
Liberata and Faustina     580  
Liberata     580  
Maurilius     580   Bishop of Cahors
Sequanus (Seine)     580  
Domnolus     581   Bishop of Le Mans
Eparchius (Cybard)     581  
Ferreolus     581   Bishop of Uzès
Tharsilla     581  
Bonitus
Bonitus (abbot)
Bonitus of Monte Cassino was a Benedictine monk and abbot of the monastery of Monte Cassino. During his abbacy the monastery was plundered by the Lombards under Zotto of Benevento and Bonitus fled with his monks to the Lateran Hill in Rome, dying shortly afterwards.-External...

    582  
Leobardus     583  
Deiniol
Deiniol
Saint Deiniol was the first Bishop of Bangor in the Kingdom of Gwynedd, Wales. He is also venerated in Brittany as Saint Denoual. In English, the name is translated as Daniel but this is rarely used....

 (Desiniol, Daniel)
    584   Bishop of Bangor Fawr
Dulcardus     584  
Felix of Nantes     584   Bishop of Nantes
Maurus
Saint Maurus
Saint Maurus was the first disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia . He is mentioned in St. Gregory the Great's biography of the latter as the first oblate; offered to the monastery by his noble Roman parents as a young boy to be brought up in the monastic life. Four stories involving Maurus recounted...

    584  
Ruadan of Lothra     584  
Salvius
Salvius (bishop)
Salvius or Sauve was a bishop of Albi in Gaul.He was later declared to be a saint.-External links:* from history of France which mentions him...

 (Sauve)
    584   Bishop of Albi
Hermenegild
Hermenegild
Saint Hermenegild or Ermengild , was the son of king Leovigild of Visigothic Spain. He fell out with his father in 579, then revolted the following year. During his rebellion, he converted from Arian Christianity to Roman Catholicism. Hermenegild was defeated in 584, and exiled...

    585  
Leudomer (Lomer)     585   Bishop of Chartres
Ursicinus     585   Bishop of Cahors
Agnes of Poitiers     586  
Candida the Younger 536   586  
Cyprian
Cyprian
Cyprian was bishop of Carthage and an important Early Christian writer, many of whose Latin works are extant. He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage, where he received a classical education...

    586  
Daig Maccairaill (Dagaeus, Daganus)     586  
Praetextatus (Prix)     586   Bishop of Rouen
Redemptus     586   Bishop of Ferentini
Junian of Mairé
Junian of Mairé
Saint Junian was a 6th century Christian hermit and abbot. He was the founder of Mairé, or Mariacum, Abbey in Poitou, France. He was born at the beginning of the 6th century, at Brioux near Champagné-le-Sec....

    587  
Radegunde 518   587  
Romphar     587  
Abraham the Great of Kaskhar 492   588   Bishop of Kratia
Agericus (Airy, Algeric) 521   588   Bishop of Verdun
Bodagisl     588  
Frediano (Frigidian, Frigidanus)     588   Bishop of Lucca
Aedh MacBricc     589  
Alexander     590   Bishop of Fiesole
Connat     590  
Ebregislus (Evergislus)     590   Bishop of Cologne
Fachanan (Fachtna)     590   Bishop of Ross
Bishop of Ross
The Bishop of Ross was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Ross, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics. The first recorded bishop appears in the late 7th century as a witness to Adomnán of Iona's Cáin Adomnáin. The bishopric was based at the settlement of Rosemarkie until the mid-13th...

Joseph Abibos     590  
Palladius     590   Bishop of Saintes
Quadragesimus     590  
Servulus     590  
Veranus of Cavaillon 513   590   Bishop of Cavaillon
Ferreolus     591   Bishop of Limoges
Sulpicius "Severus"     591  
Yrieix (Aredius)     591  
Guntramnus     592  
Simeon Stylites the Younger
Simeon Stylites the Younger
Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger [also known as 'St. Simeon of the Admirable Mountain'] is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Catholic Churches of Eastern and Latin Rites...

512   592  
Guntramnus     592  
Saint Silvia
Saint Silvia
Saint Silvia was the mother of St. Gregory the Great; she had another son but his name did not survive through the ages. She is also venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church...

    592  
Lomer     593  
Sylvia
Saint Silvia
Saint Silvia was the mother of St. Gregory the Great; she had another son but his name did not survive through the ages. She is also venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church...

    593  
Marius
Marius Aventicensis
Marius Aventicensis or, popularly, Marius of Avenches was the Bishop of Aventicum from 574, remembered for his terse chronicle...

530   594   Bishop of Avenches
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...

    594   Bishop of Syracuse
Agnellus     596  
Ebrulf
Ebrulf
Ebrulf was a Frankish saint, hermit, and abbot. He was born at either Bayeux or Beauvais. A Merovingian courtier at the court of Childebert I, he was a cup-bearer to the king and an administrator of the royal palace.It was some time before he was given leave to go from court, but Ebrulf wished...

 (Evroult)
    596  
Leander of Seville
Leander of Seville
Saint Leander of Seville , brother of the encyclopedist St. Isidore of Seville, was the Catholic Bishop of Seville who was instrumental in effecting the conversion to Catholicism of the Visigothic kings Hermengild and Reccared of Hispania .-Family:Leander and Isidore and...

534   596   Bishop of Seville
Columba
Columba
Saint Columba —also known as Colum Cille , Colm Cille , Calum Cille and Kolban or Kolbjørn —was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period...

 (Columbcille)
521   597  
Baithin     598  
Dallan Forgaill
Dallan Forgaill
Saint Dallán Forgaill —also Dallán Forchella; Dallán of Cluain Dalláin; born Eochaid Forchella—was an early Christian Irish poet best known as the writer of the Amra Choluim Chille and the early Irish poem Rop tú mo baile, the basis of the modern English hymn Be Thou My Vision.-Personal...

530   598  
Anastasius XI     599  
Canice (Cainnech, Kenneth)     599  
Aldate     600   Bishop of Gloucester
Bishop of Gloucester
The Bishop of Gloucester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers the County of Gloucestershire and part of the County of Worcestershire and has its see in the City of Gloucester where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church...

Amantius     600  
Asaph
Saint Asaph
Saint Asaph was, in the second half of the 6th century, the first or second Bishop of St Asaph, i.e. bishop of the diocese of Saint Asaph, the Welsh See now of that name.-Biography:...

 (Asa)
    600   Bishop of Asaph
Avitus I     600   Bishop of Clermont
Ebrulf
Ebrulf
Ebrulf was a Frankish saint, hermit, and abbot. He was born at either Bayeux or Beauvais. A Merovingian courtier at the court of Childebert I, he was a cup-bearer to the king and an administrator of the royal palace.It was some time before he was given leave to go from court, but Ebrulf wished...

 (Evroult)
    600  
Fulk
Saint Fulk
The first Saint Fulk was a pilgrim who was beatified for his selfless assistance of plague victims even when this was a risk to himself. He was travelling to Rome when he stopped at Santopadre, or Castrofuli, in southern Italy, to help plague victims. He died of the plague, and was beatified and...

    600  
Honoratus of Amiens
Honoratus of Amiens
Saint Honoratus of Amiens was the seventh bishop of Amiens. His feast day is May 16.-Life:...

    600   Bishop of Amiens
Liudhard
Liudhard
Liudhard was a Frankish bishop – of where is unclear – and the chaplain of Queen Bertha of Kent, whom she brought with her from the continent upon her marriage to King Æthelberht of Kent...

 (Liphard, Letard)
    600  
Maurus     600   Bishop of Verona
Oncho (Onchuo)     600  
Peregrinus (Cetteus
Cetteus
Saint Cetteus is the patron saint of Pescara. He was a bishop of the 6th century, elected to the see of Amiternum in Sabina in 590, during the pontificate of Gregory the Great.According to a largely legendary Passio, during Cetteus’ episcopate, Amiternum was...

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    600   Bishop of Amiternum
Amiternum
Amiternum, a traditional cradle of the Sabines, is an ancient Sabine prefecture in the Abruzzo region of modern Italy at 9 km from L'Aquila. Amiternum was the birthplace of the historian Sallust .It was stormed by the Romans in 293 BC...

Tarsicia     600  

See also

  • Christianity in the 6th century
    Christianity in the 6th century
    In 533 Roman Emperor Justinian in Constantinople launched a military campaign to reclaim the western provinces from the Arian Germans, starting with North Africa and proceeding to Italy. Though he was temporarily successful in recapturing much of the western Mediterranean he destroyed the urban...

  • List of Church Fathers
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