Eugenius I (sometimes Eugene; died 647) was

Archbishop of Toledo This is a list of Bishops and Archbishops of Toledo ( la, Archidioecesis Metropolitae Toletana).

from 636 to 646. He became successor in 636 of Justus in that

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. Like his predecessor he had been a disciple of Helladius in the monastery of Agali. He is famous as an

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and astronomical mathematician. As a bishop he was virtuous and intelligent. At this period, under the

Visigothic Kingdom The Visigothic Kingdom, officially the Kingdom of the Goths ( la, Regnum Gothorum), was a kingdom that occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries. One of the Germanic peoples, Germanic su ...

, the

councils of Toledo From the 5th century to the 7th century AD, about thirty synods, variously counted, were held at Toledo (''Concilia toletana'') in what would come to be part of Spain. The earliest, directed against Priscillianism, assembled in 400. The "thi ...

were national diets convoked by the monarch, attended by lay lords; they regulated, to some extent, not only spiritual but temporal affairs. Of these councils Eugenius presided at the

Fifth Council of Toledo The Fifth Council of Toledo was convoked by King Chintila and opened on 30 June 636 in the church of Saint Leocadia in Toledo. It was attended by twenty two bishops and two episcopal representatives. The bishops of Narbonensis were absent for poli ...

, convoked in 636 by King

Chintila Chintila (Latin: ''Chintila, Chintilla, Cintila''; c. 606 – 20 December 639) was a Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia from 636. He succeeded Sisenand and reigned until he died of natural causes, ruling over the fifth and sixth p ...

to confirm his elevation to the throne; he assisted at the sixth, convoked by the same king to take precautions against the disorders of royal elections. This council, contrary to the principles later put in practice by Ildephonsus, banished all Jews who did not embrace

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. Eugenius attended the

Seventh Council of Toledo The Seventh Council of Toledo commenced on 18 November 646 and was attended by 41 bishops either personally or by delegation. It was the first of Chindasuinth's two councils. The law against treason was strengthened with the addition of a penalty ...

, which was summoned by King

Chindaswinth Chindasuinth (also spelled Chindaswinth, Chindaswind, Chindasuinto, Chindasvindo, or Khindaswinth (Latin: Chintasvintus, Cindasvintus; 563 – 30 September 653) was Visigothic King of Hispania, from 642 until his death in 653. He succeeded Tulga, ...

and decreed that the bishops of Toledo should reside one month every year in that city.

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* * {{authority control Archbishops of Toledo 7th-century bishops in the Visigothic Kingdom Medieval Spanish astronomers Year of birth unknown 647 deaths 7th-century astronomers 7th-century mathematicians es:Eugenio de Toledo fr:Eugenius pl:Eugeniusz II (biskup Toledo)