Lupus of Lyon

Saint Lupus of Lyon, hierarch, was the twenty-⁠fifth bishop of Lyon, in the middle of the 6th century. He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church and remembered on 24 September in the Western calendar.

History knows him only once: on 7 May 538 he presided over the council of Orléans, attended by twenty-⁠six bishops, which took disciplinary decisions. He was not present at the council of 541. He is called metropolitan. According to tradition, he had earlier been a monk, or hermit, on the island of Barbe in the Saône, north of Lyon, according to a letter of Archbishop Leidrad and the Life of Saint Leobinus of Chartres. The date of his death is not known, but it fell between 538 and 549, since his successor Leontius appears for the first time in 549.