Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon

8 dated entries naming Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon, drawn from 8 separate years between 87 CE and 1312 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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1st century

  • 87Pothinus, bishop of Lyon (approximate date)source

5th century

  • 449Eucherius, bishop of Lyon (approximate date)source
  • 455Rusticus, archbishop of Lyon (approximate date)source
  • 491Lupicinus becomes bishop of Lyon. He is the founder of the abbeys of Saint Claude (Jura Mountains).source

6th century

  • 501April 25 – Rusticus, archbishop of Lyonsource

8th century

  • 779Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (approximate date)source

9th century

  • 840Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (b. 779)source

14th century

  • 1312April 10 – The threat of a takeover by the Kingdom of France against the sovereign French Archdiocese of Lyon is ended when the Archbishop Pierre de Savoie signs a treaty granting King Philip the Fair the authority to administer the Lyon courts and law enforcement system.source