Pappolus of Metz

Pappolus of Metz (Pappole, Papoul) was bishop of Metz in the early 7th century and is venerated as a saint in the Western Church. Little is known about him.

According to the sources he served between about 609 or 610 and 614, an episcopate of only a few years. He is counted as the twenty-⁠sixth bishop of Metz (the German source numbers him the twenty-⁠eighth). In 612, by one account, he founded the Benedictine monastery of Saint-⁠Innocens, later called Saint-⁠Symphorien after it received the relics of Saint Symphorian, and he was buried there. He also made the church of Saint Clement in Metz into a monastery church. He is said to have founded the village of Plappeville, where he had an estate.

He reposed around 614. He is commemorated on 21 November, in the Roman calendar.