Leontius of Autun

Leontius of Autun (in French Léonce) was bishop of Autun, in Gaul, in the 5th century, and died around 430. Almost nothing is known of his life before his ministry. The list of the bishops of Autun shows him as the eighth bishop, after Evantius and before Euphronius. The Hieronymian Martyrology records on 1 July the burial of Leontius, bishop of Autun. He is sometimes confused with Saint Leonorius (Lunaire) and with Leontius of Fréjus, who lived at about the same time. His commemoration is on 1 July, in the Western calendar (new style). A saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.