Faustinus

Holy Hierarch Faustinus was the fifth bishop of Lyon, in the second half of the third century.

He followed Helias in the see, around the middle of the century. His name is preserved by Saint Cyprian of Carthage, who calls him "our colleague" and "a very dear brother". In the year 254 Faustinus wrote twice to Cyprian and, it seems, also to Pope Stephen I about Marcian, bishop of Arles, who, following the teaching of Novatian, refused to receive back Christians who had lapsed in the persecution of Decius and had repented. Faustinus then spoke in the name of the bishops of Gaul, although other sees existed in Gaul by then, among them Vienne and Arles.

At the beginning of the fifth century Castor, bishop of Apt, built a monastery at Nîmes in his honour, which had only a short life.

He is venerated as a saint of the undivided Church in the Catholic Church and, according to some sources, in the Orthodox Church, with no synodal canonization shown by the sources.