Agrippinus of Como

Saint Agrippinus of Como was the thirteenth bishop of the city of Como in northern Italy, at the beginning of Lombard rule, and reposed in 615 according to the Orthodox calendar or in 616 or 617 according to Italian sources. He is honoured chiefly in the diocese of Como. In the time of the schism of the Three Chapters he was on the side of those who had broken communion with the pope. He was probably a monk, but it is not known whether he came to Como as an exile because of this schism or was a native.

He chose as the centre of his missionary and episcopal work the Isola Comacina, where before his death he built the plebeian basilica of Sant'Eufemia, in which he was first buried. After the destruction of the island and the demolition of the church in 1169, his relics were found in 1717 and moved first to the abbey of Acquafredda at Lenno (1721) and then, after its suppression, to the church of Santa Domenica at Delebio (1785), his presumed birthplace. He is commemorated on 17 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.