Namatius of Clermont

Holy Hierarch Namatius of Clermont (Namace) was the eighth or ninth bishop of Clermont (then Arvernis) in Gaul, from 446 to 462, and reposed around 462. He founded the city's first cathedral. He is a saint of the undivided Church.

Saint Gregory of Tours describes his work: he built the old church, still standing in Gregory's time, a hundred and fifty feet long, in the form of a cross, with forty-⁠two windows, seventy columns and eight doors, full of brightness, and in spring a pleasant fragrance as of spices was perceived there. In the twelfth year of the building, the bishop sent priests to Bologna in Italy to obtain the relics of Saints Agricola and Vitalis, martyrs who, Gregory says, were certainly crucified for Christ.

He is commemorated on 27 October, the liturgical date in the Orthodox calendar (the same day number on the old and new calendars).