Calétric or Colétric of Chartres was a 6th-century French bishop and saint. His name is also spelled ''Caletricus'', ''Chaletricus'' or ''Chalactericus'' (in
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Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus ( 530 600/609 AD; french: Venance Fortunat), known as Saint Venantius Fortunatus (, ), was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a bishop of the Early Church who has been venerate ...
), whilst in French it also appears in the popular forms Caltry or Calais, probably by confusion with the abbot-saint of Le Maine. His feast day is on 4 September.
His predecessor as
bishop of Chartres was
Lubin of Chartres, who is last definitively mentioned in 551. Caletric definitely died before 573, the year when his successor
Pappolus took part in a council in Paris. However, as that council was called by
Sigebert I on splitting the
diocese of Chartres, Calétric probably died shortly before it. According to Fortunatus he died aged only 38.
Calétric himself is only contemporaneously known from his attendance at two other councils - one in Paris sometime between 557 and 563 and the other in
Tours in 567/568. He also appeared in a 9th century ''Life of Saint Lubin'', which stated that he was once a young priest of noble birth with a sister called Mallegonde.
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Bishops of Chartres
6th-century Frankish bishops