Amandus of Bordeaux

Saint Amandus of Bordeaux was bishop of Bordeaux in Gaul for two non-⁠consecutive periods between 404 and 431 (the year of his death being about 431). He was raised in a Christian home and educated in the Holy Scriptures. Bishop Delphinus, recognising his qualities, ordained him priest, and he was the priest who prepared Paulinus for baptism in 389. He wrote to Paulinus, then living in Italy, a letter of consolation on the death of his brother; Paulinus's reply survives. In another letter Paulinus reproves Amandus for having exaggerated his literary skills. The earliest collection of Paulinus's letters contains six to Amandus, and he may also have corresponded with Jerome.

Around 404 he succeeded Delphinus in the see of Bordeaux. When his health began to fail, he urged the people to elect a replacement; they chose Severinus, who had been bishop of Trier, but he died soon after, in 420, and Amandus resumed the see. These events are known from the letters of Paulinus. He is venerated as a saint, with his feast on 18 June; the Orthodox calendar calls him a confessor and commemorates him as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.