John

Saint John was bishop of Ravenna in Italy from 452 to 494 and reposed in 494. The Greek calendar commemorates him on 12 January (new style), and Western synaxaria call him John I Angeloptes and regard him as a confessor. Since he is remembered in the Greek synaxarion and the Roman Martyrology, he is a saint of the undivided Church.

According to Western lists of saints, he protected his flock from the fury of Attila, leader of the Huns, and eased the lot of the city after it was taken by Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths. His surviving epitaph says that he was bishop for sixteen years, ten months and eighteen days and that he was buried on 5 June 494.