Hieromartyr
Dionysius of Augsburg
Bishop of Augsburg
Bishop and martyr of Augsburg, who died around the year 303.
- Feast
- February 26old style March 11
- Reposed
- 3034th century
- Place
- Augsburg
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Dionysius of Augsburg is honoured as the first bishop of Augsburg in Germany and as a hieromartyr. He suffered under Diocletian, around the year 303. According to tradition he was baptised and then consecrated bishop by Saint Narcissus.
The source preserves no other details. He is remembered on 26 February in the Western calendar (new style) and is honoured as a saint of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.
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