Julius of Lyon (french: Jules de Lyon) was the seventh

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 ...

. He succeeded Verus in the second half of the 3rd century. We know very little about him and his life, except that it establishes Philetus as second Abbot of the Abbey of Île Barbe.Jean-Marie de la Mure, Histoire ecclésiastique du diocèse de Lyon, Lyon, 1671, p.23 His name is known to us from the various lists of the first bishops of Lyon and chronicles the history of the Church of Lyon. His

episcopate A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

is one of the dark periods of the religious history of Lyon after the first well most famous bishops.

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Bishops of Lyon 3rd-century bishops in Gaul Year of birth unknown Year of death missing {{France-RC-bishop-stub