Acta Sanctorum

Agrippinus of Autun

1 January · commentary
Latin source: Heiligenlexikon
St. Agrippinus, eighteenth bishop of Autun in Gaul (fl. c. 533-538). He attended the Second and Third Councils of Orleans and is remembered for ordaining St. Germanus of Paris to the diaconate and priesthood. He died before 549. 6th century

CONCERNING ST. AGRIPPINUS, BISHOP OF AUTUN.

About the year of Christ 540.

Commentary

Agrippinus, Bishop of Autun in Gaul (St.)

[1] Agrippinus was the eighteenth Bishop of Autun, as Claudius Robert states. The manuscript Martyrology of St. Jerome records his feast on the Kalends of January, but from this it is clear that it was expanded; it reads as follows: "At Autun, St. Agrippinus, Bishop of Autun. the deposition of Bishop Agrippinus." St. Agrippinus attended the Second Council of Orleans in the year 533 and the Third in the year 538.

[2] He consecrated St. Germanus of Paris as a Priest. Fortunatus mentions him in the Life of St. Germanus of Paris on May 28: "But the Lord Germanus within the space of three lustra was ordained Deacon by Blessed Agrippinus, and in the following three years was ordained Priest." Aimoinus, book 1, chapter 24, records the same. St. Agrippinus was not yet seated in the year 517, when Pragmatius, Bishop of Autun, subscribed to the Council of Epaon. Nor did he survive to the year 549, when Nectarius, Bishop of Autun, subscribed to the Fifth Council of Orleans.