Eustochius (also Eustachius) was the fifth

bishop of Tours The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tours ( Latin: ''Archidioecesis Turonensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Tours'') is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The archdiocese has roots that go back to the 3rd c ...

from 443 to 461. He was succeeded by his close relative,

Saint Perpetuus Saint Perpetuus (french: link=no, Saint-Perpetue) (died 30 December 490 AD) was the sixth Bishop of Tours, serving from 460 to 490. Life Born of a senatorial family of the Auvergne, Perpetuus became bishop of Tours around 460. He succeeded his r ...

. His extremely rare name suggests a possible connection to Saint

Eustochium Eustochium (c. 368 – September 28, 419 or 420), born ''Eustochium Julia'' at Rome, is also venerated as a saint and was an early Desert Mother. Eustochium was the daughter of Paula of Rome and the third of four daughters of the Roman Senator ...

. T. S. M. Mommaerts and D. H. Kelley make the point that his father was Eustochium's brother, Julius Toxotius the Younger, and that his maternal grandfather was Publius Ceionius Caecina Albinus, of the Ceionii Volusiani. Eustochius was descended from an illustrious family of Auvergne, and, according to Gregory of Tours, was a man of eminent virtue. In 444 he succeeded Brice as Bishop of Tours. He participated in the Council of Angers in 453, and had a principal share in drawing up the regulations made in that council concerning discipline. He died in 461, and was buried in the church built by Saint Brice over the tomb of Saint Martin.Alban Butler, Alban. "Saint Eustochius, Bishop of Tours". ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints'', 1866. CatholicSaints.Info. 20 September 2013
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* T. S. M. Mommaerts and D. H. Kelley, ''The Anicii of Gaul and Rome'', in ''Fifth-century Gaul: a Crisis of Identity?'', ed. by John Drinkwater and Hugh Elton, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge & New York, 1992), 120–121. {{Authority control 5th-century deaths 5th-century bishops in Gaul Bishops of Tours 5th-century Christian saints Gallo-Roman saints Year of birth unknown