Constantine of Gap

Holy Hierarch Constantine of Gap was bishop of the city of Gap in Provence (France). According to a Western calendar he was the first bishop of Gap and reposed in the year 529. His memory is very old: the Hieronymian Martyrology records him on 12 April with the words "in the city of Gap, the repose of Bishop Constantine", and the Roman Martyrology repeats the same entry.

The time in which he lived is uncertain. Some scholars identify him with two different bishops, one of the middle of the 5th century and another of the first decades of the 6th century; the name also appears as Constans, Constantius or Constantianus. Others have shown that the bishop present at the councils of 439 to 442 was Constantianus of Carpentras and not of Gap. The Acta Sanctorum and Louis Duchesne link the saint of the martyrology to a bishop Constantius or Constantine attested in the first half of the 6th century, at the councils of Epaon (517), Arles (524), Carpentras (527) and Orange (529). He is commemorated on 12 April, by the Western calendar (new style), as a saint of the undivided Church.