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Saint

Alpinus of Lyon

Bishop of Lyon

Bishop of Lyon in Gaul, reposed around 390.

Feast
September 15old style September 28
Reposed
3904th century
Place
Lyon

Life

Alpinus of Lyon, also called Albinus or Aubin, was the fourteenth bishop of Lyon, the successor of Saint Justus, from 381 to 390. He is said to have built the church of Saint Stephen and chosen it as his cathedral. He reposed around the year 390. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 15 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 28 September of the civil calendar.

Commemorated the same day September 15