Verus of Lyon (french: Vère de Lyon, links=no) is the sixth
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 succeeds
Saint Faustin in the second half of the 3rd century.
[David M. Cheney]
Archdiocese of Lyon
at catholic-hierarchy.org.
His name is known to us from the various lists of the first archbishops of Lyon and chronicles the history of the Church of Lyon. After the first six remarkable and canonized Bishops, Verus was the first bishop of a dark period for the Lyon religious history that extends to the episcopate of
St. Just a century later.
His name means Glass.
References
Bishops of Lyon
3rd-century bishops in Gaul
Year of birth unknown
Year of death missing
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