Paul I

Saint Paul I was, according to the tradition of the Church of Naples, the fifth bishop of Naples, successor of Probus and predecessor of Agrippinus. He is venerated as a saint by local tradition.

Nothing is known of him beyond the old lists of the bishops of Naples, the Gesta episcoporum Neapolitanorum and the Catalogus episcoporum Neapolitanorum, written between the ninth and the tenth century. These lists give the length of his episcopate but no absolute dates; his placing between the beginning and the middle of the third century is a later reconstruction by Church historians. No documents from his time survive that would show any detail of his life or work. Details of his veneration and liturgical memory are few and come from late local tradition. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.