Probus

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

The only news of him comes from the old lists of the bishops of Naples, the Gesta episcoporum Neapolitanorum and the Catalogus episcoporum Neapolitanorum, written between the eighth and the tenth century. Tradition gives him an episcopate of about twenty-⁠three years, between 180 and 203, but these dates are later reconstructions which do not appear in the oldest sources. No testimonies from his time survive that would allow his life or work to be reconstructed. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.