Silvester of Chalon-⁠sur-⁠Saône

Saint Silvester of Chalon-⁠sur-⁠Saône, hierarch, was a Frankish bishop of Chalon between the 5th and 6th centuries and died on 20 November. He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church and remembered on 20 November in the Western calendar, as early as the martyrology of Ado of Vienne, in the 9th century.

Gregory of Tours writes of him, in his book On the Glory of the Confessors, as a holy bishop, who died in the forty-⁠second year of his priesthood. He gave the tonsure to Saint Caesarius of Arles, so he was already bishop in 486. He is historically attested twice: at the council of Epaon in 517 and at the council of Lyon, held between 518 and 523.

His relics were moved in 878 by Bishop Gerbald of Chalon, and Pope John VIII allowed his veneration, together with that of Saint Agricola.