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Saint

Leontius the Elder

Bishop of Bordeaux

Bishop of Bordeaux in Gaul, reposed around 541.

Feast
August 21old style September 3
Reposed
5416th century
Place
Bordeaux

Life

Leontius the Elder was bishop of Bordeaux in Gaul and the predecessor of Saint Leontius the Younger. He reposed around the year 541. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 21 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 3 September of the civil calendar. We have no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day August 21