Saint Paschasius of Vienne (french: Paschase) was a

bishop of Vienne The Archbishopric of Vienne, named after its episcopal seat in Vienne in the Isère département of southern France, was a metropolitan Roman Catholic archdiocese. It is now part of the Archdiocese of Lyon. History The legend according to whi ...

in the

Dauphiné The Dauphiné (, ) is a former province in Southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes. The Dauphiné was originally the Dauphiné of Viennois. In the 12th centu ...

, France, in the early fourth century.GCatholic.org: Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vienne
/ref> He is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church. The various chronologies of the bishops of Vienne mostly place him between Saint Simplicius and Saint Claudius.Ulysse Chevalier, ''Notice chronologico-historique sur les archevêques de Vienne: d'après des documents paléographiques inédits'', Vienne, 1879, p. 6
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Gérard Lucas, ''Vienne dans les textes grecs et latins: Chroniques littéraires sur l'histoire de la cité, des Allobroges à la fin du Ve siècle de notre ère'', MOM Éditions, coll. "Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée", 2018, , pages 247-270: "Adon de Vienne, Chronique", esp. "Tableau récapitulatif de la liste des évêques de Vienne jusqu'à Avit", 122. col. 91B
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Louis Duchesne, ''Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule. Provinces du Sud-Est (tome premier)'', vol. 3, Paris, Thorin et fils, 1894, p. 146
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Paschasius is said to have been the recipient of a papal bull dating from approximately 322 from

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(c. 314–335), which granted him supremacy over seven provinces, although the authenticity of this document has been called into question. In the ''Chronicles'' of Archbishop

Ado of Vienne Ado of Vienne ( la, Ado Viennensis, french: Adon de Vienne; died 16 December 874) was archbishop of Vienne in Lotharingia from 850 until his death and is venerated as a saint. He belonged to a prominent Frankish family and spent much of his early ...

(died 875), he writes that it was Paschasius who instigated the "first translation of the elics ofsaints Felician, Exuperius and Severinus", martyrs at Vienne under

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. He further describes him as a very eloquent speaker () who was the teacher of

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, the future

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 ...

. His feast day is celebrated on 22 February.

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