Marcellinus of Gaul also known as Marcellin was the first

bishop of Embrun The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Embrun was located in southeastern France, in the mountains of the Maritime Alps, on a route that led from Gap by way of Briançon to Turin. It had as suffragans the Diocese of Digne, Diocese of Antibes and Gras ...

from 354 AD.Saint Marcellin d'Embrun
He was a native of Africa Proconsularis. Marcellin, went to Rome with two other bishops of North Africa,

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and Domnin, to attend a

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in 313 to judge the Donatists movement. They met the then Pope,

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and from him received a mission. They went to Nice, where they landed, they say, after taking advice of the bishops assembled in Arles in 314. They went and preached the gospel to the inhabitants of Italian side of the Alps, from the shores of the sea to Vercelli, where Eusebius was chosen as bishop and where they separated. Marcellin and his two

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then headed towards the Alps and arrived in Embrun. As the main missionaries evangelizing in the regions they became the first bishops. Marcellin became the first

and Vincent,

bishop of Digne The Diocese of Digne (Latin: ''Dioecesis Diniensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Digne'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Erected in the 4th century as the Diocese of Digne, the diocese has bee ...

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Bishops of Embrun 4th-century bishops in Gaul Year of birth unknown 374 deaths {{France-RC-bishop-stub