Albin or Alpin ( la, Alpinus) is the 14th

bishop of Lyon The Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: ''Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Lyon''), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The Archbishops o ...

who succeeded Saint Just. He is recognized as a Saint by both the

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. and the

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and is celebrated on 15 September.

Biography

It seems that the name was originally Alpin, quickly softened to Albin by Bede and the martyrologies which succeed him. According to them, Albin succeeds

Justus Justus (died on 10 November between 627 and 631) 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 paganism, probably arrivin ...

in 390 and was a holy bishop. Tradition assigns him the foundation of the St. Stephen's Church, where he was buried. He died shortly before 400AD. Bernard Berthod, Jacqueline Boucher,

Bruno Galland Bruno Galland (6 March 1964, Lyon) is a French medievalist and archivist. Parcours A student at the École nationale des chartes, Galland obtained his archivist-palaeographer diploma in 1987 with a thesis entitled ''Les archevêques de Lyon de ...

, Régis Ladous and André Pelletier, Archevêques de Lyon, Lyon, éditions Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, 2012, p191

References

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